Jean-Michel Basquiat - The Neo-Expressionist & Graffiti Milestone!

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a abundant artist, built-in in Brooklyn, the New York City on December 22, 1960. His father, Gerard Jean-Baptiste, a Haitian, was a above Haitian abbot of interiors. His mother, Matilde, was from Puerto Rica. Jean was a actual able kid back adolescence and had able affection for accent and literature. Moreover, attributable to his "multinational" parents, he was actual chatty in English, Spanish, & French, and acclimated to apprehend history, medical texts, poetry, mythology, etc.

Since his childhood, Jean had an absorption in art. Michel's mother noticed this. Knowing his absorption and keenness, she encouraged her adolescent to acrylic and draw. At the age of seventeen, in 1977, Michel, forth with his friend, Al Diaz, started aerosol painting graffiti in Manhattan and on the subways. Jean-Michel and his acquaintance would assurance their works with "SAMO'. In December 1978, the Village Voice, New York's account newspaper, agitated an commodity on SAMO messages. SAMO appearance concluded with the acknowledgment "SAMO IS DEAD" on the walls of SoHo buildings.