By the time he reached his early twenties, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a veritable art star. His meteoric rise to fame in the 1980s is legendary. Within the space of a few years the penniless and homeless young artist was commanding international attention for his raw, highly-coded paintings that evoke the gritty reality of urban life. 让·米歇尔·巴斯奎特,是二战后美国涂鸦艺术家,新艺术的代表人物之一。八十年代初,他的街头涂鸦艺术因受到波普文化领袖安迪·沃霍尔(AndyWarhol)的赏识,得以登堂入室。安迪·沃霍尔对巴斯奎特的帮助很大,他们曾在一起创作交流,1981年,沃霍尔邀请巴斯奎特参加了名为“纽约/新浪潮”的展览,之后,这位艺术青年正式进入主流艺术圈,粗野不羁和草根也开始焕发光彩。■ 巴斯奎特:“我并不是一个发光的孩子” -- 纪录片© Jean-Michel Basquiat:“ I'm not a shining kid”Jean Michel Basquet is an American graffiti artist and one of the representatives of new art after World War II. In the early 1980s, his street graffiti art was appreciated by pop culture leader Andy Warhol and was able to enter the house. Andy Warhol helped Basquet a lot. They once created and communicated together. In 1981, Warhol invited Basquet to participate in the exhibition called "New York / new wave". After that, the art youth officially entered the mainstream art circle, and the rough and unruly and grass-roots began to shine.
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