Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art work had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message and art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful
Themes
Genres: Non-Fiction
Categories: Biography
Settings: New York, Northern America, United States of America
Ethnicity: Haitian, Puerto Rican
Immigration: Immigrant/Migrant
Gender: Boy/Man, Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Bi/Multiracial/Mixed Race, Black/African/African American, Latinx/Hispanic/Latin American
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary