“Like an ape? A primate?…You said it, you said it.”

—  Jean-Michel Basquiat

On being asked whether his artwork was a form of primal expressionism in “How Jean-Michel Basquiat predicted our identity-obsessed digital age” https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/jean-michel-basquiat in GQ (2017 Sep 20)

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American artist 1960–1988

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