2020年11月3日 · Contemporary accounts tend to mythologize the brief life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who rocketed from New York City’s underground graffiti culture to worldwide acclaim before dying of a heroin...

Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop culture.

2024年6月21日 · Jean-Michel Basquiat first attracted attention for his graffiti under the name "SAMO" in New York City. He sold sweatshirts and postcards featuring his artwork on the streets before his...

2017年10月17日 · This is the prescient opening line of writer Glenn O’Brien’s film Downtown 81 (1981/2000), starring a brash yet buoyant Jean-Michel Basquiat as a struggling young artist working in a then-dilapidated lower Manhattan.

Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged in New York as a gritty, street-smart graffiti artist crossing over from downtown origins to art gallery stardom.

2025年1月22日 · Jean-Michel Basquiat (born December 22, 1960, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died August 12, 1988, New York City) was an American painter known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text.

As a teenager, Basquiat began creating graffiti art in the streets of New York City under the pseudonym “SAMO.” He worked alongside another artist named Al Diaz, and the two became known for their cryptic messages and drawings that appeared throughout the city.

2018年6月1日 · Basquiat emerged from New York’s graffiti scene in the 1970s, by means of his collaboration with his high-school friend Al Diaz in the street art duo SAMO. Together the pair sprayed cryptic aphorisms on subway cars and buildings in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, rose from graffiti artist to become a global art icon and one of most influential figures in contemporary art in the 1980’s.

In the early 1980s, he was an important figure in the New York art scene and enjoyed his rapidly growing international fame, symbolizing the art world’s recognition of graffiti, and the counter-cultural scene. His meteoric rise as a successful artist lasted for only seven years, and today Basquiat’s legacy is celebrated on multiple fronts.