A One-on-One Conversation

Thinking of just one person that I would like to have a one-on-one conversation, is quite a challenge as there as so many writers and artist that I would love to meet, but if I have to choose I would go for Basquiat. He is one of my favorite artist. He started doing some graffiti in NY as “SAMO” that is a short name for “the same old sh*t”, but then he jumped to paintings. He is considered as a neo-expressionist artist and was really close to Andy Warhol, which help him a lot to become more famous. Unfortunately he died due a drug addiction that lead him to an overdoses that kill him.

I still remember the first time I heard of Jean- Michel Basquiat, it was thanks to my father. He told me he had the chance to see his complete work in an exhibition in a travel, that was really amazing, but as I didn’t knew I decided to look him over, and I just loved it. There I found a movie based on his life story that show me more about him (You can watch it on Youtube). So if I could talk to him I would ask him to teach me how to do graffiti or paintings, also I´ll ask him to show me the places he visited and what inspired him, ask him about his favorites things and the things he hate. I found so interesting how he started in the street and now a days he has his paintings hanging in them MoMA with works that seems so extravagant or in some cases as doodles. For me Basquiat is one of the greatest artist in the modern art, so I would choose him, also because he looks really like a funny guy (and he has the best hair in all the history of art)