Comparing The Lives Of Matilda Andrades And Gerard Basquiat

“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” Jean-Michel Basquiat said (Brainy Quotes). December 22, 1960 the lives of Matilda Andrades and Gerard Basquiat would all change. The two of them gave birth to a creative, soon to be famous artist that would affect the lives of many. Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, but soon left at the age of 17 in June of 1978 to move to Lower Manhattan, which is where it all began. He started out writing graffiti on the walls with his signature “SAMO©” (Same Ole’ Sh*t), and it seemed to catch the eyes of the walking pedestrians of the people of Manhattan. Many of them soon wondered who he is. He slowly, then started to become famous without even being famous! At the age of 18, Basquiat was already at the peak of his career, starting off with his first artwork named “Scull” in 1981. Debbie Harry

Soon after he and Kenny Scharf became rising stars of the downtown art scene. Soon later Annina Nosei started to post his work in her gallery which led him to make $20,000 and after that, everything started to attract him like people, money, and problems. Jean-Michel’s obstacles more so came at the epicenter of his career. When Bruno Bischofberger introduced him to Andy Warhol to Jean-Michel they started to collaborate together and soon after became friends. “Andy was more influenced by Jean than Jean was influenced by him.” As claimed by Bruno Bischofberger (Jean-Michel Basquiat – Radiant Child (2010) FULL Docu). With Basquiat and Warhol work together on paintings and stuff, their work wasn’t doing all that good because Andy wasn’t as big as he had been, which was an