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“A QUICK KILLING IN ART” By: Jean-Michel Basquiat



Brooklyn's finest Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of the iconic artists to come from his city Brooklyn. His graffiti work was a very legendary art work that he mastered back in his time. Basquiat is a trend setter, most of the trends you see today in the pop and art culture came from Basquiat himself. He was a very unique young man for his age and didn’t care about the negative opinion from people or credits which what made him to be great, They was starting to call Basquiat the Jimmy Hendrix of art world because of his retro affect. I like this because it describes a young man from Brooklyn that is an outstanding artist that will change the art world in Brooklyn, but just when you think things is going well it’s always something that ruins it. Young Basquiat will change the art world after taking this bad route to interfere with his talent, dreams, hard-work and career. His decision were poor and sad at the same time. I wish he had someone to guide him in the right way for him to make good decisions and maybe he will be a bigger name in art then what he is now. Also he was determine, I say because he ran away from home to pursue his dream and became a street artist. A few things I didn’t like about the book was how it’s not really a mystery to find out about the story because it pretty much tells you a lot you need to know about what’s going to happen in the introduction of the book. One of the good things about the book is how it shows life lessons because you can be on top of the world for a minute and then as soon as you make a bad choice it can all vanish in a second. This happens with a lot of people in different things such as music, sports, entertainment, school and any career or goal, people let things that are not good for them to be involved in their life causing for their future to crash and shatter in to pieces. If you love something with a passion you should cherish and protect by any means necessary, because you don’t want to be that could have been this or could have been that person who always complaining. Be the person that is, so you can be the present even though your work was the past. When you start to do that you will become great forever and not just for the moment. So your kids or grand children can look up to you and not make the same mistakes that you did when you was younger, so they can also keep the legacy going in the family tree. I hope you guys liked the review I provided, also I hope this make you want to find out about Jean-Michael Basquiat, take here.