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"Riding with Death" by Jean-Michel Basquiat - His Last Artwork

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Jean-Michel Basquiat was a star amongst the stars of New York City during the 1980s and lived a life akin to a rock and roller, only in his case, he was an artist. He lived a fleetingly famous life, producing hundreds of paintings and drawings. This article will discuss Riding with Death (1988), which was one of Basquiat’s last paintings. Table of Contents [Show] Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York City, and died of a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988, in Manhattan in New York City; he was 27 years old. He was a street and graffiti artist whose work has been classified in the Neo-Expressionism art style. He was from a mixed heritage, his father, Gerard Basquiat, was born in Port-au-Prince in Haiti and his mother’s, Matilde Andrades, parents were Puerto Rican which allowed him fluency in English, French, and Spanish. He created graffiti art with the pseudonym SAMO (“Same Old Shit”) and exhibited it at numerous galleries throughout the world, achiev

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a star amongst the stars of New York City during the 1980s and lived a life akin to a rock and roller, only in his case, he was an artist. He lived a fleetingly famous life, producing hundreds of paintings and drawings. This article will discuss Riding with Death (1988), which was one of Basquiat’s last paintings. Table of Contents Artist Abstract: Who Was Jean-Michel Basquiat? Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York City, and died of a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988, in Manhattan in New York City; he was 27 years old. He was…

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