Samo Jean Michel Basquiat Graffiti
I don t think about art while i work he once said.
Samo jean michel basquiat graffiti. I think about life. Art jean michel basquiat and the birth of samo when a mysterious graffiti tag started appearing around new york the voice went looking for the artist behind samo. 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 rap punk and street art coalesced into early hip. By the 1980s his neo expressionist paintings were being.
Discovered through his graffiti. It accompanied short phrases in turns poetic and sarcastic primarly painted on the streets of downtown manhattan. Jean michel basquiat was an american artist of haitian and puerto rican descent. December 22 1960 august 12 1988 was an american artist of haitian and puerto rican descent.
A poet musician and graffiti prodigy in late 1970s new york jean michel basquiat had honed his signature painting style of obsessive scribbling elusive symbols and diagrams and mask and skull imagery by the time he was 20.