Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a mother from Puerto Rico and Love from Haiti. Even without the education, Jean-Michel understood the power inherent in the combination of image and word, and used his faith to express his environment - high culture and so on. He succeeded in distilling these contents to their basic form, and the portraits he drew spoke boldly about racism and social discord. Even though he died at a young age, his work is considered today to have the greatest influence on street art culture around the world.
