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Artist Biography: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jun 18, 2024
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14 minutes read
Jean-Michel Basquiat, born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, rose to prominence in the 1980s Neo-expressionism movement through his SAMO graffiti and solo exhibitions. His vibrant, symbolic art explored themes of race, class, and societal structures. Despite his death in 1988 at age 27, Basquiat's extensive body of work continues to be celebrated and cements his legacy as an iconic figure in modern art.
Art History
A Renaissance against racism...
Feb 22, 2023
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10 minutes read
Larsen's novel seems to continue in the point of view expressed, roughly thirty years later, by Jacob Lawrence's painting, which, titled Taboo (1963), is one of the many works created by the artist during the civil rights movement, aimed at expressing, through the depiction of two mixed couples intent on getting married, all the aversion felt by the master to taboos concerning marriages between people of different races...

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