Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Inspirational Sketchbook
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The Jean-Michel Basquiat Inspirational Sketchbook is perfect for creativity and visual learning. Complete with 120 pages, including 12 full color pages of Basquiat's work, you can write, draw, and design on the empty pages, and find the interspersed inspiration from Basquiat as you move forward through the sketch book!
• Sketchbook: 8 x 10.5”
• 120 pages in total
• 108 blank pages for ideating and creating
• 12 full color Basquiat art/quotes
• Wire-O binding
Jean-Michel Basquiat
A poet, musician, and graffiti prodigy in late-1970s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat had honed his signature painting style of obsessive scribbling, elusive symbols and diagrams, and mask-and-skull imagery by the time he was 20. “I don’t think about art while I work,” he once said. “I think about life.” Basquiat drew his subjects from his own Caribbean heritage—his father was Haitian and his mother of Puerto Rican descent—and a convergence of African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories with Classical themes and contemporary heroes like athletes and musicians. Often associated with Neo-expressionism, Basquiat received massive acclaim in only a few short years, showing alongside artists like Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Francesco Clemente. In 1983, he met Andy Warhol, who would come to be a mentor and idol. The two collaborated on a series of paintings before Warhol’s death in 1987, followed by Basquiat’s own untimely passing a year later.
