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In 1977, he began signing his graffiti "SAMO" – for "Same Old Shit" – with the addition of a crown and the copyright symbol ©. In the course of a dazzling career, his work moved from street art to painting, offering a mix of Voodoo and Biblical mythologies, comic strips, advertising and the media, African-American music and boxing heroes and assertion of his negritude.
Modern art museum paris basquiat biography
Thus he defined an underground urban counterculture at once violently anarchistic and seething with liberty and vitality. In 1982, Basquiat was invited to Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany, and in the following year he became the youngest artist – and the first black one – ever to show at the Whitney Biennial in New York.
In 1984, he began co-creating paintings with Andy Warhol, continuing until the latter's death in 1987.
At the time, Conceptualism and Minimalism were the austerely dominant avant-garde currents in American art. Basquiat's coming brought a break with this trend and saw him become the star of the "Neo-E