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Image: Jean-Michel Basquiat by James Van Der Zee Source: Answers.com Website: http://www.answers.com/topic/jean-michel-basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat Artist Personal Information Born December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, NY; died of a cocaine-heroin overdose August 12, 1988, in New York City; son of Gerard (an accountant) and Matilde Basquiat. Education: Attended City as School, Brooklyn, NY. Career Began painting SAMO graffiti messages on walls around SoHo, 1977; sold painted sweatshirts and postcards and performed in the experimental band Gray, New York, 1977-80; paintings exhibited in first group show, "New York/New Wave," New York, 1981; first one-man show, Modena, Italy, 1981; first one-man show in the U.S., Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1982; became youngest artist ever included in prestigious international survey of contemporary art, "Documenta," Kassel, Germany, 1982; paintings included in Museum of Modern Art's re-opening exhibition, "International Surv...

Image: Andy Warhol vs Jean Michel Basquiat by Michael Halsband Source: Wikipedia Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat 22th December 1960, Brooklyn - August 12, 1988, New York, New York Basguait was an artist who 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. Image: Untitled, 1981 by Jean-Michel Basquiat Biography Basquiat's mother, Matilde, was Puerto Rican and his father, Gerard Jean-Baptiste, 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,...

Source: Aristos Website: http://www.aristos.org/aris-03/art&cog.htm Date: January 2003 Art and Cognition: Mimesis vs. the Avant Garde Author Michelle Marder Kamhi [A]rtists themselves have been pushing the boundaries of any . . . definition [of 'art'], challenging our preconceptions, and leaving most philosophers, psychologists and critics well behind--to say nothing of the general public. . . . Environmental art pushes the definitional boundaries by placing art outside the museum, in a (more) natural environment. Well known examples include earthworks, e.g., by Robert Smithson, and wrapped buildings by Christos [sic]. --Joseph A. Goguen, "What is Art?" (Introduction to Art and the Brain, Part 2, Journal of Consciousness Studies, special issue, August-September 2000) One of the hottest topics of academic inquiry in recent years has been the relationship between art and cognition. This interest is a natural outgrowth of the cognitive revolution that began in the ea...

Pop Goes the Easel by Marina Saint Martin Source: Gold Coast - Australia Website: http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2007/11/10/4710_more-gossip-news.html Date: 10Nov07 Only a handful of 20th-century artists -- Pablo Picasso is an obvious one -- have managed to change the direction of art and the way in which art is viewed, as Andy Warhol has done. Even fewer have had such impact on both the art world and the general public as Warhol. Perhaps the main reason for his enormous recognition and popularity was in his ability to create a bridge between cultures . . . in allowing the fine art world to converge with that of popular culture. He became the ambassador, the spokesperson -- the icon, in fact -- for popular art culture. Mr Pop Art himself. Australia's first major Andy Warhol retrospective will open at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, on December 8, bringing together more than 300 works of the one of the most influential of artists. Warhol has remained relevant to both art a...

Reinventing the wheel | Love it or hate it, Marcel Duchamp's urinal revolutionised modern culture in 1917 Did the 20th century's cleverest artist play a great joke on history, asks Jonathan Jones of the Guardian. Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, 1917. Photograph: © Succession Marcel Duchamp/ Paris and DACS, London 2007 The object in Tate Modern is white and shiny, cast in porcelain, its slender upper part curving outward as it descends to a receiving bowl - into which I urinate. It's just a brief walk from here in the fifth-floor men's loo to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, an object sealed in a plastic display case on a plinth that is nevertheless almost identical to the receptacle into which I've just pissed. This museum treasure is no more or less than Duchamp described it to his sister in a letter of spring 1917: une pissotière en porcelaine. Duchamp warned against an attitude of "aesthetic delectation" that would transfigure his urinal into something art...

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