The Chaotic Brilliance of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Where was Jean-Michel Basquiat born?

• Port-au-Prince, Haiti

• Brooklyn, New York

• Los Angeles, California

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Basquiat got his start as a street artist under a pseudonym (a fictitious name). What was his pseudonym?

• JMB-3000

• SAMO

• JEAN

• None of the above

Which of the following were source material for Jean-Michel Basquiat?

• Paintings by other artists.

• Comic books.

• Gray’s Anatomy

• All of the above

Which of the following did Basquiat use to make his canvases?

• Old t-shirts

• Discarded scraps of wood

• Corrugated metal

• None of the above

Basquiat was influenced by the “cut-up” techniques of

• The Beat writers

• Shakespeare

• The Pre-Raphaelites

• Touissant L’Ouverture

Jean-Michel Basquiat once said, “I am not a_________ artist, I am an artist.”