The Arts: The frenzied urge to make his mark How the artworks of Jean-Michel Basquiat bear witness to his short, speedy life.

From: The Independent - London | Date: February 22, 2000| Author: Michael Glover | Copyright information

THE INGREDIENTS were perfect for those early myth-makers, and this is the story that was told at the time. The scene is Manhattan, at the turn of the Eighties - the Reagan years of stretch-capitalism and the prospect of nuclear implosion. A young, poor, untutored, Brooklyn- born graffiti artist called Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian on his mother's side, Puerto Rican on his father's, is identified by a canny art dealer from the way he signs his graffiti on the walls of Soho and Greenwich Villag...

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