Basquiat
Basquiat is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed, co-written and co-composed by Julian Schnabel in his feature directorial debut. The film is based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. It is the first film about an American painter written and directed by another artist.
Plot
The film is a lightly fictionalized account of Basquiat's life. A struggling artist living in a cardboard box in Tompkins Square Park works his way up the rungs of the New York art world in the eighties, thanks in part to his association with Andy Warhol, the art dealer Bruno Bischofberger, poet and critic René Ricard, and fellow artist Albert Milo.
More details
| author | Julian Schnabel Lech Majewski |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Julian Schnabel |
| editor | Michael Berenbaum |
| genre | drama romance |
| keywords | andy warhol art dealer aspiring artist basquiat bruno bischofberger drug use heroin intertitle isolated jean-michel basquiat new york art world rené ricard struggling artist tompkins square park |
| musicBy | John Cale |
| producer | Jon Kilik Randy Ostrow Sigurjón Sighvatsson |
| productionCompany | Eleventh Street Productions |
| publisher | Miramax Films |
| theme | biographical biographical drama independent lgbt-related |