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Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Jean-Michel Basquiat Famous memorial

Birth
Park Slope, Kings County, New York, USA
Death
12 Aug 1988 (aged 27)
Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Burial
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.6475563, Longitude: -73.9887161
Plot
Section 176, Lot 44603
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Artist. The protégé of pop artist Andy Warhol, he was the son of middle-class Brooklyn parents, and had a precocious success with his paintings from the start. His career was incubated by the short-lived graffiti movement, which started on the streets and subway cars in the early 1970s. Having no art training, he never tried to deal with the real world through drawing; he could only scribble and jot, rehearsing his own stereotypes, his pictorial nouns for "face" or "body" over and over again. Critics made much of Basquiat's use of sources: vagrant code-symbols, quotes from Leonardo or Gray's Anatomy, African bushman art or Egyptian murals.
Artist. The protégé of pop artist Andy Warhol, he was the son of middle-class Brooklyn parents, and had a precocious success with his paintings from the start. His career was incubated by the short-lived graffiti movement, which started on the streets and subway cars in the early 1970s. Having no art training, he never tried to deal with the real world through drawing; he could only scribble and jot, rehearsing his own stereotypes, his pictorial nouns for "face" or "body" over and over again. Critics made much of Basquiat's use of sources: vagrant code-symbols, quotes from Leonardo or Gray's Anatomy, African bushman art or Egyptian murals.

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  • Added: Aug 1, 1998
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3360/jean-michel-basquiat: accessed ), memorial page for Jean-Michel Basquiat (22 Dec 1960–12 Aug 1988), Find a Grave Memorial ID 3360, citing Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.