Jean Michel Basquiat (SAMO- Same Old Sh*t) was a neo-expressionist, primitivism artist in the 1980s. Basquiat grew to fame as a part of SAMO, a graffiti duo that wrote epigrams in lower east side of Manhattan during the late 1970s. Jean Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 22, 1960 to a Haitian father who was an accountant and a Puerto Rican Mother. In his early childhood, Basquiat displayed a talent for art learning to draw and paint with his mother’s encouragement. Together…
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