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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

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wrote: "The movie gives a sense of how driven he was, how it seemed as if he aimed, by sheer volume, to assure himself a place in the pantheon of twentieth-century painters, when in fact he achieved that position by virtue of a necessarily smaller number of masterpieces, produced in the early and
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wrote: "Naturally, the doc is well illustrated with examples of Basquiat’s work, some of which are little-seen. But even those who dispute his place in art history should come away with a feeling for the man whose brief career is a textbook example of a flame burning too bright to last."
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Tamra Davis was working in a Los Angeles art gallery in 1986 when she filmed an interview with her friend, Jean-Michel Basquiat. After Basquiat's death from a heroin overdose in 1988, Davis stored the footage away. In 2008, Davis was encouraged by
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to do something with the footage. She began interviewing friends and associates of Basquiat's and pieced together a documentary. The film is titled after an article about Basquiat written by art critic
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wrote that "you see the paintings and hear people praise them, without the space to consider them in between, " adding: "The film's a decent introduction to a man who walked the world of
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The film received positive reviews, however, critics noted that it doesn’t fully explore why Basquiat's work was so "innovative in the New York art scene of the 1980s."
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work. However, soon his cult status began to overshadow his art. As a successful black artist, Basquiat was constantly confronted by
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draws from insider interviews and archival footage of Basquiat's telling his story in his own words.
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In the beginning of his 10-year career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was known for his
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and anecdotes from his friends and associates. The film was shown at the
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Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Tamra Davis
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Fortissimo Films
Sundance
documentary film
Tamra Davis
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Sundance Film Festival
gallerists
Museum of Contemporary Art
Rene Ricard
Artforum
graffiti art
SAMO
Manhattan
Lower East Side
Debbie Harry
Madonna
Andy Warhol
bebop
neoexpressionist
racism
Julian Schnabel
Larry Gagosian
Bruno Bischofberger

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