1. JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT : When Art becomes personal | ART SKL

Keep up with us here: ARK SKL is an inclusive Visual Arts platform that shares Art education in a digestible and resourceful way. ART SKL hopes to educate students and Art enthusiasts on Art History of ALL time (from historical to famous and contemporary). We encourage you to join in with the ’Artists Response’ and share your work with us. This video gives a condensed history on the life, art and untimely death of Jean-Michel Basquiat. This video gives an educational insight into his upbringing, his entrance into the art world as one half of SAMO, continuing to his breakthrough work and last pieces. Jean Michel was a brilliant Artist- delving in to themes and issues that we still tackle today. This video includes footage from below resources: Tamara Davis’ ’The Radiant Child’ Basquiat’s first interview Interviews with Basquiat and his work Raw and unseen footage of Basquiat’s work SAMO Footage from Film Downtown 81 Downtown 81 by Glenn O’brien Andy Warhol and Jean