BASQUIAT Graphic design was a visionary and daring

was a visionary and daring ceramist: in the mid-fifties

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BASQUIAT Graphic design was a visionary and daringThe first African American artist to achieve art superstardom, Jean Michel Basquiat (1960 1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings (Julian Schnabel recalls him once accidentally leaving a portfolio of about 2,000 drawings on a subway car) in the space of just eight years. Through his street roots in graffiti, Basquiat helped to establish new possibilities for figurative and expressionistic painting, breaking the white male stranglehold of