Jean Michel Basquiat

Place: Brooklyn

Born: 1960

Death: 1988

Biography:

Jean-Michel Basquiat (French: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskija] December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, pun...