Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist born in Brooklyn in New York
His mother was a Puerto Rican and his father of Haitian origin.
He had started as a street artist painting graffiti art and then he became
a very popular and sucessful avant-garde artist.
His style was very original - nervous, fierce and energetic. Originally he
pretended to be a primitive art painter then was regarded as a high society artist.
Unfortunately he got addicted and died of heroin overdose.
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