Basquiat.com is a tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), an artist who came to personify the art scene of the 80s,with its merging of youth culture, money, hype, excess, and self-destruction.
This site features an art gallery, a bookstore, a film library, several links
of interest, and a shop.
Basquiat at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles from July 17 -
Octobrer 10, 2005
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In his short life (1960-1988), Jean-Michel Basquiat came to personify the art scene of the 80s, with its merging of youth culture, money, hype, excess, and self-destruction. And then there was the work, which the public image tended to overshadow: paintings and drawings that conjured up marginal urban black culture and black history, as well as the artist's own conflicted sense of identity.
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