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A la fin des années 1970, New York etait abandonné par le gouvernement et ses habitants mais une petite communauté artistique, punk et bohème, a pu s'épanouir. Parmi ces artistes, il y avait Jean-Michel Basquiat, né à Brooklyn le 22 décembre 1960 et mort d'une overdose le 12 août 1988 à NoHo. Son ami, le street artiste Al Diaz et le cinéaste Jim Jarmusch donnent leur vision de cette icône de l'art moderne. Basquiat, d'origine haïtienne et portoricaine, était pour le mélange des genres, embrassant l'art du graffiti, la peinture sur vêtements et la composition musicale...
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00:29Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:30S-A-M-O, come on, you've seen it on the walls.
00:32This gentleman right here is Samo.
00:34Samo was part of a conversation happening in New York.
00:38The city was burning down, literally.
00:40The murder rate was at its highest point ever.
00:43People were really angry at the establishment.
00:46The eruption of graffiti inspired a lot of younger artists
00:49to take control over that situation on their own terms.
00:55What Basquiat understood was the nature of public space.
00:59His work was a texture of the city around him.
01:03He was discovering his own art form.
01:06The walls and floor were his canvas.
01:08He was into letting art be itself,
01:10and that's why his work was very crude and childlike in some ways.
01:15The first time I saw his graffiti, I said to him,
01:17you know, you're going to be as big as Andy Warhol.
01:21At a certain point, Jaune just took off,
01:23and you knew he was not coming back.
01:28Jaune knew that he only had a limited amount of time.
01:31I think that's what kept his wheels turning faster than everybody else.
01:36What an example of a true investigator of visual ideas,
01:41language, and music.
01:43Jaune Michel, with his work,
01:46had an effect on everybody that saw it.
01:50Oh, absolutely.
01:54I'm joined.
01:54I'm
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