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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Antonia Darder, Antonio Broccoli Porto, Angel Botello, Teresa Lopez, Obed Gomez, Maria Luisa Penne, Lorenzo Homar, Luis German Cajiga, Adal Maldonado, Francisco Oller, Soraida Martinez, Maria de Mater O'Neill, Rafael Tufino, Tomas Batista, James De La Vega, Jose Campeche, Jose Buscaglia Guillermety, Elizam Escobar, Julio Rosado del Valle, Ramon Frade, Rigoberto Torres, Antonio Martorell, Osvaldo Budet, Manny Vega, Papo Colo, Alfonso Arana, Johnathan Dwayne, Juan Bautista Garcia, Jan D'Esopo, Olga Albizu, Moises Fragela, Rolando Lopez Dirube, Melvin Rodriguez Rodriguez, Ramon Atiles y Perez. Excerpt: Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting. Basquiat died of a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988, at the age of 27. Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, the first of three children to Matilde Andrades (July 28, 1934 - November 17, 2008) and Gerard Basquiat (born 1930). He had two younger sisters: Lisane, born in 1964, and Jeanine, born in 1967. His father, Gerard Basquiat, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and his mother, Matilde Basquiat, was of Puerto Rican descent, born in Brooklyn, New York. Basquiat was a precocious child who learned how to read and write by age four and was a gifted artist. His teachers noticed his artistic abilities, and his mother encouraged her son's artistic talent. By the age of eleven, Basquiat could fluently speak, read, and write French, Spanish and English. In September 1968, Basquiat was hit by a car while playing in the street. His arm was broken and he suffered several internal injuries, and eventually underwent a splenectomy. His...
