The American painter began his artistic career with graffiti painting on house walls and the subway in New York. The breakthrough came with Jean Michel Basquiat's mixed media on unprimed canvases and paper, which he furnished with scraps of sentences or individual motifs. The message of his pictures has to do with being delivered, whereupon he became an icon of the New York subcultural art scene. He signed with "SAMO" (Same Old Shit), a character he invented that lives from bringing substitute religion to the people. Andy Warhol was a patron of his art ...
