American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) gained popularity first as a graffiti artist in New York City. Later, he was recognised as a successful 1980s-era Neo-expressionist artist.
In 1980 Basquait participated in his first exhibition, the Times Square Show. His fame and friendship with Andy Warhol, began a year later. The artists admired each other, and collaborated in nearly one hundred works.
Basquiat’s paintings still influence modern day artists and command high prices.
This video is from the final episode of State of the Art - documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. The video frames the works and concerns of these artists is the intellectual context of the time, and especially the contemporary concerns of post-modernism.
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