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Instruction: answer questions 41 to 56 based on the following text.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Lisa S. Wainwright
01 Jean-Michel Basquiat (born December 22, 1960, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. —died August 12,
02 1988, New York City) was an American painter known for his raw gestural style of painting with
03 graffiti-like images and scrawled text. Basquiat was raised in a middle-class home in Brooklyn.
04 His mother was an American of Puerto Rican descent. She encouraged Basquiat's interest in art,
05 taking him to New York City's great art museums. His parents eventually separated, and he and
06 his sisters lived with their father in Puerto Rico from 1974 to 1976. His mother was diagnosed
07 as mentally ill and eventually was institutionalized.
08 Troubled by his early childhood, Basquiat dropped out of high school and left home at age
09 17.Helived ___ the streets, with friends, or __ abandoned buildings and began a graffiti campaign
10 with graffiti artists Al Diaz and Shannon Dawson. They created the persona SAMOO (said to
11 represent “same old shit”) and painted anonymous messages ___ walls around SoHo and the East
12 Village and on the D train of the New York City subway system. In the late 1970s that work—
13 together with the work of other graffiti artists—began to receive notice in the art world, and so
14 did Basquiat.
15 He emerged in the aboveground New York art scene at age 20, about the time that a
16 resurgence of Expressionist painting was at its height, and participated in his first formal public
17 exhibition in “The Times Square Show” (1980). From there his career skyrocketed, and, until his
18 death in 1988, he was a celebrity, represented by major blue-chip ____ (gallery) in New York
19 and Germany.
20 Lacking any formal training, Basquiat created highly expressionistic work that mixed graffiti
21 and signs with the gestural and intuitive approach of Abstract Expressionist painting. Although
22 much of his work addressed his personal angst in highly stylized self-portraits, he also alluded
23 to African American historical _____ (figure), including jazz musicians, sports personalities, and
24 writers. He appropriated and freely mixed motifs from African, Caribbean, Aztec, and Hispanic
25 cultures and mixed “high art” references with images from popular culture, especially cartoons.
26 In 1981 Basquiat was the subject of __ article by art critic René Ricard in Artforum
27 magazine. ___ young artist was befriended by the Pop artist Andy Warhol in 1983, and the two
28 began to collaborate occasionally. In 1985 Basquiat appeared on the cover of the weekly New
29 York Times Magazine as ___ representative of the contemporary art-marketing trend. Three years
30 ater, at age 27, he was found dead in his loft from an overdose of heroin. The artist and director
31 Julian Schnabel made Basquiat and his meteoric rise in the art world the subject of his first film,
32 Basquiat (1996).
(Available in: https://www .britannica.com/biography/Jean-Michel-Basquiat - text especially adapted for this test).
Mark the alternative that correctly fills in the gaps in the last paragraph respectively.
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