Foundation Beyeler , Basel, in collaboration with the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, organized a retrospective of the works of Jean- Michel Basquiat, to mark the 50th birthday of the artist. The exhibition is composed of one hundred major works belonging to the collections of several museums and private collections.
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol Photography, 1982 Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 2010
The work of Jean- Michel Basquiat had a meteoric ascendancy in the art world. The first signs have emerged over the graffiti in ephemeral interventions in the late 70s of last century, the facades of buildings degraded Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York.
Basquiat and graffiti on the streets of Manhattan, New York Then at 17 (1977), accompanied by his friend Al Diaz, Basquiat a systematized concept of graffiti on the power of the word sarcastic, elaborated in detail in uninhabited buildings in Manhattan. The terms "SAMO" or "SAMO shit" feed the curiosity - short for "same old shit" (the same old shit).
Basquiat, "Untitled (Samo Anti-Art)", 1979 felt pen, pencil and pen on paper, 26.5 x 20.5 cm
With 19 years of age changed the walls for painting, in acrylic and oil paintstick. Without money to buy the materials, painted on window frames, refrigerators, cabinet doors, old cards, football helmets and various media, without forgetting the spray underground and the t-shirts hand painted sold on the streets.
Basquiat Arroz con Pollo ", 1981 acrylic and oil bar on canvas, 172.7 x 213.4 cm
Basquiat, "Untitled (Fallen Angel)", 1981 acrylic and oil on bar on the screen
Basquiat, "Cabeza", acrylic and oil bar on canvas mounted on wood, 128 x 101 cm 1982
Basquiat, "Philistines," 1982 acrylic and oil bar on canvas, 182.9 x 312.4 cm
Basquiat, "Untitled," oil bar on paper, 1982 Successful participation in the 1981 "Times Square Show" - an exhibition which brought together young artists from New York - catapulted him into the limelight and in 1982 was already a successful artist, who lived by selling their works. The invitation to participate in the same year in "Documenta 7, Kassel (Germany), was to culminate the golden path of those who still had time to share an affair with the promising young Madonna, then 21 years.
Basquiat and Madonna, photography by Stephen Thornton, c.1981 
Basquiat, "Notary", acrylic, oil bar and glue paper on screen mounted on wooden stand, 1983
Basquiat, "In Italian," acrylic and oil on canvas bar in support of wood, 224.8 x 203.2 cm, 1983
Basquiat, "Untitled (Head)," silkscreen, 101.6 x 101.6 cm, 1983 
Basquiat, "flexible", 1984 acrylic and pastel on wood, 259 x 190.5 cm
Basquiat, "Grillo", installation, 1984 collage, acrylic, oil, oil pastel on wood and nails
Basquiat, "Untitled (Longevity, Prosperity), 1985 
Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol photo by Michael Halsband, New York, 07.10.1985
In 1983, Basquiat was youngest artist and first African American to exhibit at the Whitney Museum's Biennial of American Art in New York. It was already one of Andy Warhol's closest friends and took the artistic intervention pasting on the screen their own drawings or photocopies, always with intensity. "I think of art as work," he once said. "I try to think about life." He died four months before turning 28 years old.
Warhol and Basquiat, "Knockout Punch" (detail), 1985 "Basquiat & Warhol Paintings", photo by Michael Halsband
Basquiat in his studio on Great Jones Street photograph of Lizzie Himmel, New York, 1985
Basquiat, "Gravestone , 1987 acrylic and oil on wood bar, 140 x 172.4 x 55.9 cm
Basquiat, "Pegasus", acrylic, graphite and crayons in support paper on canvas, 223.5 x 228.6 cm, 1987
Basquiat, "Eye and Eggs," 1987, Fondation Beyeler photography Fabrice Coffrini / AFP, Basel, 2010
A retrospective of work by Jean-Michel Basquiat - Paintings, drawings and objects - is currently taking place at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris until the 30th of January.
Basquiat, "Riding With Death" 1988 acrylic and oil on canvas, 248.9 x 289.6 cm
Basquiat photographed together in "Untitled (Ernok) ', 1982 Sources: here, here and here.
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Brooklyn, New York, 1960
m. New York, USA, 1988
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