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Jean Michel Basquiat (1960- 1988) is an American graffiti artist and one of the representatives of new art after World War II.

Chinese name: Jean Michel Basquiat.

Jean-Michel Basquet

Date of birth:1960 65438+February 22nd.

Date of death:1August 988 12.

Occupation: Graffiti artist

Main achievements: one of the representatives of new art

Representative works: beyond words: works influenced by graffiti art

Personal experience

1960 65438+February 22nd

Pascal was born in Brooklyn, new york. His mother is black of Puerto Rican descent and his father is of Haitian descent. 1963, his sister Lisiane was born, 1966, Jeanine, the last member of Basquet family, was born. Basquet grew up in a middle-class family with a superior life and spent his whole childhood in new york.

Basquet showed great interest in painting at an early age. His parents supported and encouraged him in different ways in this respect. His father often brings him drawing paper, and his mother often takes him to visit museums, such as Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art. ..

1967

Basquet's parents divorced and the children lived with their father. Jean Michel Basquiat started taking classes in a private Catholic school. He and his classmates created a children's book together. At the same time, he painted some things he liked: cars, Hitchcock movies and characters in comic books. He is also keen on reading literary works in English, Spanish and French.

1968

Basquet was injured by a car while playing football and stayed in the hospital for a whole month. One of his arms was broken due to various injuries, and finally he had to have his spleen removed. During his recovery, his mother gave him a famous textbook "Anatomy" written by Gray. This book is deeply loved by medical students because of some anatomical plates, and it also has an important influence on Basquet's works.

197 1 year

He left private school for public school. 1974, Gerald Basquet moved his family to miramar, Puerto Rico because of his promotion, and Jean Michel ran away from home for the first time.

1976

Gerald Basquet was transferred back to work in new york, and his family moved into the Boreham Hill community. Jean Michel was admitted to "City School", which is a school for gifted children and adopts practical teaching methods. At this time, he met Al Diaz, a graffiti artist, and they soon became friends, splashing oil paints together in Manhattan. This time he ran away from home for two weeks, wandering around Washington Square in Greenwich Village all day, taking drugs.

Since 1977

Basquiat and several of his friends, including Ardiaz, began to doodle on the walls of Manhattan. Basquet's graffiti works contain poetic symbols, philosophical connotations and ironic meanings, as well as various symbols, such as crowns or SAMO? "(nonsense), which later became his symbol. Soon, KeithHaring began to notice the originality of Basquet's works and became his first admirer. Basquet joined a drama group called Family Life Theatre. One year before graduation, he was expelled from school for not obeying the rules and regulations.

1978

Jean Michel Basquiat decided to move out of his father's house and live alone. In the evenings when he stays up all night, Basquiat will go to Mudd Club or Club 57 in the center of Manhattan, where he will stay with musicians, artists and singers. Among them are Madonna, B-52s, Michael holman, one of the members after Gray, and Danny Rosen, Basquet's club partner. In order to make a living, Basquet sells all kinds of postcards and T-shirts made by collage technology. In a restaurant in Soho, andy warhol bought a postcard hand-painted by Basquet. In February, 65438+, an article in Village Voice described the ubiquitous Samoyed Seal and its great concern in new york art circle.

1early 979.

Basquet and Diaz stopped their cooperation because of their differences. It was at this time that signs of Samo's death filled the walls of Soho. Basquet has great talent in all aspects. He formed a band called Channel 9, which was later called TestClarinette. Later, in order to commemorate the anatomy book he read as a child, he finally named the band Gray. Basquet plays clarinet and synthetic music in the band. At the same time, he continued to make T-shirts and postcards and sold them in Soho, Washington Square and in front of the new york Museum of Modern Art. It was during this period that Basquet met Kenny Shaff and Kathleen. At Mudd Club, he met DiegoCortez, who became his first art agent, introduced him to Dongfang Village, and made him know the influential art critic HenryGeldzaler.

1980

Basquet attended the first group exhibition in his life in the Bronx, which was called "Times Square Exhibition". Also participating in this exhibition are artists such as DavidHammons, JennyHolzer, KikiSmith and KennySharf. In this exhibition, Basquet drew a whole wall based on SAMO's previous graffiti. He is the only artist mentioned in the review of this exhibition "American Art". Encouraged by such success, Basquet left the Gray Band and devoted himself to painting. Grano Bryan chose Basquet to star in the film The Beat of new york, which was produced by Maripol and directed by Eduardo Bertholio. But this film has never been officially released. Basquiat volunteered to see andy warhol. Basquet bought all kinds of painting materials by selling his works and moved into a real studio.

198 1 year

Basquet and his girlfriend Susanna marlock moved into an apartment in new york. Basquet participated in the exhibition "new york/New Wave" sponsored by DiegoCortez with artists such as KeithHaring, andy warhol and RobertMapplethorpe. Three art agents, BrunoBischofberger, AnninaNosei and EmilioMazzoli, were very interested in Basquet's works and held a solo exhibition for him in Modena. At the same time, he also participated in several group exhibitions, such as "Lower Manhattan Painting Exhibition" hosted by KeithHaring at Mudd Club and "Beyond Words: Works Influenced by Graffiti Art" hosted by Braithwaite and Futura at Mudd Club, which further affirmed Basquet's talent and made him more and more famous. In September of the same year, he participated in the group exhibition "Nosei's Public Speech" held in the AnninaNosei Art Museum. It was at this time that Nosei became his main buyer. Knowing that he didn't have his own studio, Nosei asked him to use the basement of the art museum as his own studio. At about this time, an article entitled "Radiant Children" was published in the Art Forum, which was the first article specially written for Basquet.

1982

This is a glorious year for Basquet. Basquet's first solo exhibition in the United States was held at the AnninaNoisei Art Museum in new york, which was highly praised by critics and academic circles. After that, he held a series of solo exhibitions at the LarryGagosian Art Museum in Los Angeles (where he stayed for a while), the BrunoBischofberger Art Museum in Zurich (Bischofberger later became Basquet's sole distributor in Europe), the Fun Art Museum in new york and the Delta Art Museum in Rotterdam. The group exhibitions he participated in also accumulated his popularity, especially two group exhibitions, which surpassed avant-garde Italy/America and DokumentadeKassel. The former made Basquiat contact with some of the most famous artists at that time (such as Sandrochia, Francesco Lemente, Enzokuchi, David Salle and Julian schnabel), while the latter made him the youngest artist in that exhibition. SergeKapharoah, an artist from Bermuda, shared his interest in African ideology and people of African descent living outside the African continent with Basquet. At the same time, the famous photographer JamesVanDerZee took a personal photo of Basquet. The famous photographer is famous all over the world for his photos of artists.

Around this time, he began to make rap music and became a DJ in several clubs in Manhattan. Some of his favorite musicians appeared in his works at this time, such as MilesDavis, CharlieParker, DizzieGillepsie, BillieHolliday and MaxRoach. In literature, he showed great interest in the books of William Blue and Jack Krujak. At this time, he also ended his business relationship with his first agent in the United States, AnninaNosei.

1983

Basquet participated in the Biennale held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in new york. He is the youngest artist in the history of this iconic exhibition, which has since established the unparalleled popularity of the 23-year-old artist. Basquet met Peggy Powell, editor of Interview magazine, and Powell was also a big fan. Powell played an important role in the development of friendship between Basquet and andy warhol. The friendship between Basquet and Warhol is based on mutual appreciation, mutual trust and mutual attraction. They often work, chat and go out together. Among all the artists' comments, Warhol's affirmation is the only one that Basquet values, and Warhol also tries to keep Basquet away from heroin. At the end of this year, BrunoBischofberger invited three artists, Basquet, FrancescoClemente and andy warhol, to hold an exhibition called "Cooperation" in his art gallery. Basquet and his friends stayed in Jamaica for a week, where they created paintings and began to work seriously.

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In recent years, due to the success of painting creation and crazy work, Basquet participated in 17 group exhibitions and 4 large-scale solo exhibitions, which made him famous in major art galleries in the United States (Mary Boone Art Museum), Europe (Beyeler Art Museum) and Japan (Akilai Kaida Art Museum). He and Madonna spent the last time of the year in Los Angeles.

1984 65438+ October

Basquet moved to Maui, Hawaii, where he often went, and he also set up a studio there. Reluctantly, when he returned to new york, he began to cooperate with MaryBoone, who was the agent of some famous artists such as JulianSchnabel, EricFischl and DavidSalle. In May, Basquet participated in the exhibition entitled "International Tour of New Paintings and Sculptures" held in new york, which was also held for the reopening of the new york Museum of Modern Art. In France, he participated in the exhibition entitled "French/American Freestyle" held in the Paris Museum of Modern Art. In the last period of the year, he met his girlfriend JenniferGoode. His friends began to pay attention to his health problems because he began to have intermittent paranoia.

65438+February 0985

Basquet appeared on the cover of The New York Times magazine. He was the only black artist who became the cover figure of this magazine, supplemented by the article "Brand-new Art, Brand-new Economic Sources: Marketization of American Artists". That spring, he participated in the renovation project of a new nightclub "Goddess of Wisdom", which was renovated and decorated by ArataIsozaki and AndreePutman together with FrancescoClemente, KeithHaring and KennyScharf. In September, TonyShafrazi and BrunoBischofberger exhibited 16 works jointly created by Basquet and Warhol. However, the dull media coverage of the exhibition greatly affected the relationship between the two artists, and soon they stopped cooperating. At this time, Basquet's health began to deteriorate. /kloc-in October/February, he stayed in Tokyo for a week and participated in a solo exhibition at AkiraIkeda Art Museum.

1986 1 month

Basquet went to Los Angeles to attend his last solo exhibition at the LarryGagosian Art Museum. In August of the same year, accompanied by JenniferGoode, she went to Africa for the first time and went to Abidjan, C? te d 'Ivoire to attend an exhibition organized by BrunoBischofberger. At this time, he had a disagreement with MaryBoone and lost his agent in the United States again. At the age of 25, he held his second exhibition in Europe in Kestner-Gessellschaft in Hanover, displaying more than 60 of his paintings. Together with JosephBeuys, salvador dali, SoniaDelaunay, KeithHaring, DavidHockney and RoyLichtenstein, he designed and decorated an amusement park Luna. In the last few days of the year, Basquet and Jennifer Goode officially broke up. Art criticism articles began to criticize Basquet's works more and more.

1987

He held his first solo exhibition at the DanielTemplon Art Museum in the Paris Art Museum. In February of that year, Warhol died, which brought a heavy blow to Basquet. After that, he lived in seclusion and rarely created new works. VrejBaghoomian became Basquet's agent in America. Basquet began to create works for exhibitions in new york, Paris and Dü sseldorf.

1988

Basquet went to Europe and held exhibitions in YvonLambert Art Museum and Berubourg Art Museum in Paris and HansMayer Art Museum in Dü sseldorf. The exhibition held in new york Baghoomian Art Museum was a great success. In June, Basquet went to Hawaii, where he received medication. On August 12, Basquet was found dead in his apartment on GreatJones Street. His death may have been caused by an overdose of heroin.

Introduction of works

Basquet's graffiti works often put various symbols and words on the screen, which looks like improvisation. But as a black artist living in the white world, behind these graffiti paintings and words is his calm thinking, expressing a certain mystery, as if conveying a religious sense and ubiquitous politics, but at the same time lacking direct direction, so the audience can feel the ambivalence in his life. To say that Baschia's works are full of anger, it is because he didn't see the aesthetic thought behind the works. Works often use simple and cheap materials, and the combination of acrylic oil pastels is very common in their works. The early 1980s was the period of Expressionism painting's revival, and Basquet was the leader of this movement. His works have distinctive personalities, widely use words and collage techniques, and draw lessons from the themes of modern culture and the cultural traditions of Africa and the Caribbean. He is full of interest in the inheritance of music, language and his own culture, which has had an important impact on his works. His portrait shows his favorite musicians such as Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. Although these portraits have no recognizable features at all.

Influenced by his early graffiti career, some of his other works just filled the whole canvas with words. Basquet uses this dense expression and repeated use of words to explain the theme he wants to express, thus achieving a mixed function. His works include various media of expression, such as painting, sketch, collage and printed matter.

Among the traditions established by famous artists such as Matisse and Picasso, Basquet is one of the last artists who are still creating in this tradition. These artists seek a way out from non-traditional resources, such as African art, children's paintings, paintings created by people who have never received professional training and people with mental disorders, so that their paintings have a stronger expressionist style.

Representative works include "People from Naples" and "Riding to Death".

biopic

The biopic Basquet describes the dazzling and short life of Michelle Basquet, a modern American graffiti painter. The film was directed by Julian Schnabel, a contemporary painter, and many performing stars participated in the performance.