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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