"Like an ape? A primate?...You said it, you said it."
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On being asked whether his artwork was a form of primal expressionism in “How Jean-Michel Basquiat predicted our identity-obsessed digital age” in GQ (2017 Sep 20)
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960–August 12, 1988) was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent.
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