The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for identity, by his Haitian and Puerto Rican family origins and by a founding trip to Africa. To portray this major painter of the 20th century, who died in 1988 at only 27 years old, is also to evoke the place of black American artists in the conservative and racist America of the Reagan years.
Jean-Michel Basquiat, James Noël, Dieter Buchhart, Kevin Bray, Pablo Calogero, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Al Diaz, Jeffrey Deitch, Alvin Fields, Lizzie Himmel, Michael Holman, Eric Justin Johnson, Cathleen McGuigan, Maripol, Jordana Moore Saggese, Ed Steinberg, Leisa Stroud, Madonna
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artists' life, biography, historical figure, racism, painter as artist, portrait of an artist, black arts, environmental racism, new york, usa, famous painter, biopic, biographical documentary
