Basquiat's Impact On The Art World

Jean –Michel Basquiat was like a solar eclipse in the art world, something you rarely see and briefly exist. While Basquiat had a brief existence in the mainstream art world, he changed the art world forever. For the few people that were lucky enough to witness this event known by many names such as SAMO, Innovator, The First, Phenomenon and simply Basquiat, his impact is everlasting. However, unlike a solar eclipse Basquiat left behind stories that are in many different media, now these stories are all over the world, we call them works of art. Basquiat is without a doubt one of American greatest artists, we will look at Basquiat life, his impact in the art world and his artwork's.
Basquiat did not have an easy life, he had many problems
In 1977, at the age of 17, Basquiat began trawling the streets of lower Manhattan with his friend Al Diaz. They spray-painted graffiti on derelict, rundown tenement buildings in lower Manhattan and signed their work with the initials “SAMO”, or “SAMO shit” (“same old shit”). SAMO earned him notoriety and a certain amount of fame, when Basquiat and Diaz friendship ended, the SAMO project ended with epitaph “SAMO IS DEAD”, inscribed on the walls of SoHo
Basquiat had his first solo exhibition at the Annina Nosei Gallery, in SoHo (1982). The exhibition was a great success, Basquiat’ s rise to wider recognition coincided with the arrival, in New York, of the German Neo-Expressionist movement, which provided a congenial forum for his own street-smart, curbside expressionism. One only needs to look at Basquiat artwork to understand how his surroundings life experiences, cultural differences, cultural identity, race, and influence his