Basquiat the gay painter
Over the years I’ve been asked many times how it came to be that Jean-Michel Basquiat painted a portrait of me? Rarely have I ever spoken about this experience to anyone. It was just the two of us one overnight in his studio. On that evening, a snowstorm had been threatening. If memory serves me correct it was on a Sunday night. A not many nights previously, Jean-Michel and I had been out on the town socializing when he asked if I wanted to come by his studio? he said he wanted to paint my portrait. When? I asked. Whenever’s great for you, I remember him saying. We were friends. This was not a big deal for either of us at the time. I held several jobs advocate then. Being an artist’s model was just one of them. We place a date.
On the scheduled night, I made a cease at Linda Yablonsky’s and bought some heroin first. Linda was in wonderful spirits when I arrived at her place on 6th Avenue near Prince. Glenn O’Brien was sitting there when I arrived at Linda’s. I casually mentioned that I was on my way to possess my portrait painted by Jean-Michel. Glenn said some disparaging remark about Jean-Michel and his unpopular developing relationship with Andy Warhol. Glenn O’Brien and Jean-Michel had once been fast
Jean-Michel Basquiat
(1960-1988)
Who Was Jean-Michel Basquiat?
Jean-Michel Basquiat first attracted attention for his graffiti under the name "SAMO" in New York City. He sold sweatshirts and postcards featuring his artwork on the streets before his painting career took off. He collaborated with Andy Warhol in the mid-1980s, which resulted in a show of their work. Basquiat died on August 12, 1988, in Modern York City.
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Early Life
Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 22, 1960. With a Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat's diverse cultural heritage was one of his many sources of inspiration.
A self-taught artist, Basquiat began drawing at an ahead age on sheets of manuscript his father, an accountant, brought home from the office. As he delved deeper into his creative side, his mother strongly encouraged him to pursue his artistic talents.
Basquiat first attracted attention for his graffiti in Fresh York City in the behind 1970s, under the name "SAMO." Working with a close acquaintance, he tagged subway trains and Manh
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote public epigrams in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the tardy 1970s.
By the 1980s, his paintings, which were part of the neo-expressionist movement, were creature shown in art galleries and museums around the nature. A particular point of Basquiat's art was the framework of "suggestive dichotomies", exploring the contrasts including wealth/poverty and in-group/out-group. He co-opted and fused various art forms such as poetry, painting, drawing, tying them to history, social commentary, and abstractions.
He died of a heroin overdose at his art studio at the age of 27 in 1988. In 1992, The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his perform. In 2017, a 1982 painting by Basquiat set a record for an American artist at auction, selling for $110.5 million.
Basquiat never openly identified as bisexual, however many close to him, including his ex-partner and lifelong friend, Suzanne Mallouk, have spoken about the fact that Basquiat was bi. [2]
A artistic-photolytic of Jean-Michel Basquiat by Paul Grant (follower of Basho)
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I am going through a Basquiat period right now. I am reading about him in a new book from Yale University Press :: Ambition & Love in Modern American Art by Jonathan Weinberg. Then follwed up with the only Biography I coud uncover of him byPhoeb Hoban : Basquiat - A quick Killing in Art.
I have never really liked Basquiat's work. I first read about him in Andy Warhol's diaries and had the suspicion that Warhol had a sexual crush on the juvenile black man.
Basquiat was a bi-sexual. His first sexual encounters were gay, and as a teenager he ofter worked as a gay street hustler. Though later in his experience he had many known and infamous relations with woman, including Maddona.
Andy Warhol was a closeted homosexual.
Warhol chose to partner up with Basquiat over Keith Harring among other up and comming artist. Harring who was also in the Warhol circle at the time - but was openly gay.
The two, Warhol and Basquiat did a series of painting together. Warhol started, usually with a corporate logo, and Basquiat would paint on top of Warhol's work. Apparently Basquiat would have to inspire Warhol to add