Jean-Michel Basquiat's Death

Born (Birthday) December 22, 1960

Death Date August 12, 1988

Age of Death 27 years

Cause of Death Heroin Overdose

Profession Painter

The painter Jean-Michel Basquiat died at the age of 27. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Neo-Expressionist and Primitivist painter who investigated social and political dichotomies in his work.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Haitian father and an American-born, Afro-Puerto Rican mother. He was raised mostly by his father. His mother suffered from mental illness and was institutionalized when Basquiat was eleven years old.

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“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” (Jean-Michel Basquiat)

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“I’m not a real person. I’m a legend.” (Jean-Michel Basquiat)

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“The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.” (Jean-Michel Basquiat)

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“For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I’ve gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn’t really matter.” (Jean-Michel Basquiat)

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“Some days I can’t get an idea, and I think, ‘Man, I’m just washed up,’ but it’s just a mood.” (Jean-Michel Basquiat)

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