The Exhibition
NEW MONEY – Global Marketing A Black Visual Artist. Marketing is the methods business utilise, that controls the way goods and services are sold. Popular words are these: Advert, Agent, Blurb, Brand, Brochure, Copy, Copywriter, Commercials, Flyer, Jingle, Hype, Launch, Logo, Mailshot, Market Research, Mass-Market, Promote, Product, Publicity, Slogan, Trailer, Trademark, Outlet. This exhibition contain images used to promote the artist. A sensational book using a chronological running order, in a written overview on the life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Various people who were close to the artist, contributed their recollections of him. Phoebe Hogan unauthorised biography was not endorsed by Basquiat’s estate.
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The Artist
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a middle class family, on the 22 December1960. Using the name ‘SAMO’ – meaning same old shit. Jean-Michel started to write poetic graffiti, on the walls of upper and lower Manhaten, as a wild runaway teenager from home. At the age of 21, he evolved into an international star, renowned for his Neo-Expressionism paintings & Post-Absract Expressionism. He died of an heroin overdose, at the age of 27, on the 12th August 1988. Buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, one word is written on the gray headstone – ‘ARTIST.’
