American Artist Jean Michael Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. He gained popularity first as a graffiti artist in New York City, and then as a successful 1980s-era Neo-expressionist artist.
Basquiat's paintings continue to influence modern day artists and command high prices.Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1960. His mother, Matilde, was Puerto Rican and his father, Gerard Basquiat is of Haitian origin and a former Haitian Minister of the Interior. Because of his parents' nationalities, Basquiat was fluent in French, Spanish, and English and often read Symbolist poetry, mythology, history and medical texts, particularly Gray's Anatomy in those languages.[1] At an early age, Basquiat displayed an aptitude for art and was encouraged by his mother to draw, paint, and to participate in other art-related activities.
In 1977, when he was 17, Basquiat and his friend Al Diaz started spray-painting graffiti art on slum buildings in lower Manhattan, adding the infamous signature of "SAMO" or "SAMO shit" (i.e., "same ol' shit"). The graphics were pithy messages such as "Plush safe he think; SAMO" and "SAMO is an escape clause". In December 1978, the Village Voice published an article about the writings.[2] The SAMO project ended with the epitaph SAMO IS DEAD written on the walls of SoHo buildings.
Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1960.



His mother, Matilde, was Puerto Rican and his father, Gerard Basquiat is of Haitian origin and a former Haitian Minister of the Interior. Because of his parents' nationalities, Basquiat was fluent in French, Spanish, and English and often read Symbolist poetry, mythology, history and medical texts, particularly Gray's Anatomy in those languages.[1] At an early age, Basquiat displayed an aptitude for art and was encouraged by his mother to draw, paint, and to participate in other art-related activities. In 1977, when he was 17, Basquiat and his friend Al Diaz started spray-painting graffiti art on slum buildings in lower Manhattan, adding the infamous signature of "SAMO" or "SAMO shit" (i.e., "same ol' shit"). The graphics were pithy messages such as "Plush safe he think; SAMO" and "SAMO is an escape clause". In December 1978, the Village Voice published an article about the writings.[2] The SAMO project ended with the epitaph SAMO IS DEAD written on the walls of SoHo buildings.

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Born 25 October 1881 in Malága, Spain, Picasso was a prodigy who could draw before he could speak. "My first drawings could never have been shown at an exhibition of children's drawings," he wrote. "I lacked the clumsiness of a child, his naivety. I made academic drawings at the age of seven, the minute precision of which frightened me" (Walther 1993, 8). His parents recognized their son's talents and encouraged him in his artistic ambitions. He received his formal training first from his father, who was an art teacher at the School of Fine Arts in La Coruña (1892–1895), and later at "La Lonja" school of art in Barcelona (1895–1897) and the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid (1897–1898). During these formative years he rapidly mastered the painting techniques of the ancient and Spanish masters, astonishing his teachers with phenomenal accuracy. Picasso would soon cast off the traditional painting techniques he perfected during these early years, but he would later return to them, rearranging and mixing traditional techniques with his own aesthetic innovations.




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Rembrandt Self Protrait

I found that Rembrandt protraits of himself were the difference stage of him adult life in the vision of how he seen himself. these were some of the method the he use to visaulized people through art. He came famous for the way he use light and shadow in his drawing, etching and paintings. He was the greatest artist in the Dutch school and one of the world greatest painters throught out the world.