joseys art school episode 199: In the style of Basquiat art lesson #blac...

 

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a famous American artist who started drawing at age four. As a child in Brooklyn, he spoke three languages (English, Spanish, and French) and loved comic books. [1, 2]
He became a museum member at age six
  • Jean-Michel loved art so much that he became a junior member of the Brooklyn Museum when he was only six years old. [1]
A hospital book inspired his famous style
  • When he was seven, he was hit by a car and had to recover in the hospital. His mom gave him a famous medical book called Gray's Anatomy. Looking at the bones and organs inside inspired him to draw X-ray style skeletons and body parts in his art later on. [1, 2, 3, 4]
He loved cartoons and drew his own heroes
  • Growing up, he was obsessed with Alfred Hitchcock movies, cartoons, and comic books. He even worked with his friend to create a comic book called Green Horatio when he was just a kid
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