Jean-Michel Basquiat. Composition. The Notebooks. Romaine – Gréco-Romaine enigmatic and so intimate

enigmatic and so intimate

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Jean-Michel Basquiat. Composition. The Notebooks. Romaine – Gréco-Romaine enigmatic and so intimateA facsimile edition of the artist's fascinating working notebooks. Brooklyn born Jean Michel Basquiat (1960 88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he inventively explored the interplay between words and images throughout his career, first as a member of SAMO, a graffiti group active on the Lower East Side in the late 1970s, and then as a painter acclaimed for his unmistakable Neoexpressionist