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Jennifer clement basquiat
Jennifer clement basquiat







jennifer clement basquiat

But he crammed so much art into those years, and so much meaning into that art. His career as a painter was brief – less than ten years, alas, before his death in 1988 at age 27 from a heroin overdose. Jean-Michel Basquiat’s life illustrates, among so many other things, the varying dimensions of knowing someone well. The smell of his sweat came out of my pores. Kevin Young, “Man Struck Lightning – 2 Witnesses” I’m trying to rewrite the old script, but Basquiat’s painting sits on my wall like a warning.” I don’t accept that falling is inevitable – I think there’s a way to avoid it, a way to win, to get success and its spoils, and get away with it without losing your soul or your life or both. Maybe that’s the curse of being young, black and gifted in America – and if you add sudden success to that, it only makes it more likely that you’ll succumb, like Basquiat did in a loft not far from the one I live in now, a loft filled with his art. “One critic said about Basquiat that the boys in his paintings didn’t grow up to be men, they grew up to be corpses, skeletons and ghosts.









Jennifer clement basquiat