By the time Basquiat was 27, a drug overdose took his life, though his fame and lucrative career live on in 2017, his painting “Untitled, 1982” sold for a then-record $110.5 million at auction.
One of the most unsettling scenes in “Create Dangerously” features Berrick as art historian Marc Miller and Jean as Basquiat artfully lip-synching to the recording of a contentious interview between the two. An American who never visited Haiti, he pointedly sought fame (and found it) but rejected being grouped with the creators of “Haitian primatives” or being probed about the sources of his cultural memory. Born in Brooklyn in 1960 to a middle-class Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother, he absorbed New York’s artistic riches and began his career as half of the graffiti duo SAMO. Prolific near the end of his life, Hyppolite painted more than 600 canvases in the three years before his death at age 54 in 1948.īasquiat was altogether different. “Discovered” at the age of 49 by American watercolorist Dewitt Peters, Hyppolite was championed by surrealist André Breton.
The self-taught Hyppolite, a third-generation voudou priest born in poverty, initially painted with chicken feathers on cardboard because he had no money for brushes or canvases.
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