Artist Research

I would just like to point out that the name Jean-Michel Basquiat is the most artistic a name can get.. It sounds so classy and artistic. You would expect his art to be like different contemporary shapes, or like paint splatters on a canvas. You're in for a big surprise...
All of us dream of making a name for ourselves, as early as the age of 21, but do we all do what we love to do?? Hell no. Jean-Michel decided he would do what he loved and by the age of 23 he became famous all around the world for his artwork, how lucky is he right? If he was alive today he would be about 50 years old, sadly he is not here to make any new artwork, but he still lives through his artwork he produced years ago, and that's what makes him so amazing to me.  
     Like many artists Jean-Michel started drawing at the age of only five..  He then got into a car accident and his drawings kind of portray what he say in the medical books, with bones and stuff of human beings. At 17 him and his friend used to mess around a lot and paint, do what they loved ,when they created a graffitI character and called SAMO (Same Old Shit )
As if being a cool artist wasn't enough, he started selling his art on t-shirts and postcards... and he was even in an awesome band!
Jean-Michel's inspiration came from his African culture, all his paintings have to do with things that are close to him.
Since Jean-Michel wasn't living his dream enough, he settled in Maui and rented a ranch to produce art there, he also befriended Andy Warhol in the same year, and started to mix-up his art with him, but that didn't go to well according to the critics.. :(
After the death of his friend Andy Warhol Jean-Michel starts to get depressed and spends way more time in Maui, after coming home, he overdoses and dies. That's the end of his life, but not his artwork. 
Being a black man, Jean-Michel loved to draw black people, he said they were usually "protagonists" in their paintings.
When he had his accident his mom gave him Grey's Anatomy videos to watch, and that's how he knew how to draw human anotamy so well, which was a big part of all his paintings.
It seems like a lot of his paintings were in the themes of culture and heritage, or politics, equality heritage, and some were even visual poetry. If you want to check out more of his paintings you can visit : http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat/street-to-studio/english/explore.php