Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Chapters: Haitian architects, Haitian painters, Haitian photographers, Haitian sculptors, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Philomé Obin, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Guerdy J. Préval, Jacqueline Nesti Joseph, Serge Toussaint, Préfète Duffaut, Hector Hyppolite, Ralph Allen, Rigaud Benoit, Edouard Wah, Jean-Claude Garoute, Louisiane Saint Fleurant, Alexandre Grégoire, Prosper Pierre-Louis, Frankétienne, Levoy Exil, Seymour Etienne Bottex, Stevenson Magloire, Lyonel Laurenceau, André LeBlanc, Arijac, Antonio Joseph, Petion Savain, Gesner Abelard, Samuel Roker, Wilson Bigaud, Luckner Lazard, Jean-Baptiste Jean, Villard Denis, Dieudonné Cédor, Gerald Bloncourt, Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue, Nehemy Jean, Gesner Armand, Philippe Dodard, Saint-Louis Blaise, Eugène Jean, Marie-José Nadal-Gardère, Eric Jean-Louis, Gisou Lamothe, Peterson Laurent, Fabolon Blaise, Edith Hollant, Murat Brierre, Jean-René Jérôme, Ludovic Booz, Jacques Gabriel, Georges Hector, Jean-Baptiste Bottex, Roland Dorcely, Murat Briere, Gérard Fombrun, Castera Bazile, Jackson Georges, Etienne Chavannes, Rose-Marie Desruisseau, Serge Moléon Blaise, Henri Jean-Louis, Ralph Chapoteau, Roland Blain, Jackson Ambroise, Guy Joachim, Max Gerbier, Jean-Claude Castera, Maurice Borno, Gabriel Alix, Abner Dubic, Nicolas Dreux, Bourmond Byron, Georges Auguste, Gervais Emmanuel Ducasse, Montas Antoine, Henry-Robert Brésil. Excerpt: Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting. Basquiat died of a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988, at the age of 27. Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, the first of three children to Matilde Andrades (July 28, 1934 - November 17, 2008) and Gerard Basquiat (born 1930). He had two younger sisters: Lisane, born in 1964, and Jeanine, born in 1967. His father, Gerard Basquiat, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and his mother, Matilde Basquiat, was of Puerto Rican descent, born in Brooklyn, New York. Basquiat was a precocious child who learned how to read and write by age four and was a gifted artist. His teachers noticed his artistic abilities, and his mother encouraged her son's artistic talent. By the age of eleven, Basquiat could fluently speak, read, and write French, Spanish and English. In September 1968, Basquiat was hit by a car while playing in the street. His arm was broken and he suffered several internal injuries, and eventually underwent a splenectomy. His parents separated that same year and he and his sisters were raised by their father. The family resided in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, for five years, then moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1974. After two years, they returned to New York City. At 15, Basquiat ran away from home. He slept on park benches in Washington Square Park, and was arrested and returned to the care of his father within a week. Basquiat dropped out of City As School in the tenth grade. His father banished him from the household and Basquiat stayed with friends in Brooklyn. He supported himself by selling T-shirts and homemade post cards. He also worked at the Unique Clothing Warehouse in West Broadway, Manhattan. In 1976, Basquiat and friends Al Diaz and Shannon Dawson began spray-painting graffiti on buildings in Lower Manhattan, working under the