Basquiat
Proper noun
Meaning
Basquiat (plural Basquiats)
A surname from French.
Examples
A 2006 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum displayed graffiti as an art form that began in New York's outer boroughs and reached great heights in the early 1980s with the work of Crash, Lee, Daze, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
After many years of silkscreen, oxidation, photography, etc., Warhol returned to painting with a brush in hand in a series of more than 50 large collaborative works done with Jean-Michel Basquiat between 1984 and 1986.
ASAP Rocky mentions Basquiat in his song "Phoenix", rapping "Painting vivid pictures/call me Basquiat, Picasso".
Andy always had a little extra bounce in his walk as he led them to his studio. citation Warhol's first portrait of Basquiat (1982) is a black photosilkscreen over an oxidized copper "piss painting".
Additionally, continuing his activities as a graffiti artist, Basquiat often incorporated words into his paintings.
Basquiat responded to the abstract, stylized logos with his oppositional graffiti style.