Jean-Michel Basquiat - Test
Jean Michel Basquiat
  • 1. What nationality was Jean-Michel Basquiat?
A) Italian
B) British
C) American
D) French
  • 2. In what year was Basquiat born?
A) 1950
B) 1970
C) 1980
D) 1960
  • 3. Which artistic movement was Basquiat associated with?
A) Minimalism
B) Neo-expressionism
C) Cubism
D) Surrealism
  • 4. What was Basquiat's graffiti artist tag name?
A) STERLING RUBY
B) SAMO
C) KEITH HARING
D) BANKSY
  • 5. What was Basquiat's father's profession?
A) Painter
B) Accountant
C) Architect
D) Musician
  • 6. At what age did Basquiat first exhibit his artwork in a public exhibition?
A) 17
B) 25
C) 21
D) 13
  • 7. Which artist was a close friend of Basquiat and also tragically died young?
A) Jasper Johns
B) Cy Twombly
C) Keith Haring
D) Robert Rauschenberg
  • 8. Which museum held a major retrospective of Basquiat's work in 1992?
A) The Louvre
B) Whitney Museum of American Art
C) Tate Modern
D) Guggenheim Museum
  • 9. In what year did Basquiat achieve international fame?
A) 2005
B) 1990
C) 1975
D) 1982
  • 10. Which famous artist did Basquiat collaborate with on paintings in the 1980s?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Jackson Pollock
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Andy Warhol
  • 11. In which city was Jean-Michel Basquiat born?
A) Chicago
B) New York City
C) Los Angeles
D) Miami
  • 12. At what age did Basquiat become the youngest artist to take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany?
A) 30
B) 25
C) 21
D) 18
  • 13. What themes did Basquiat's art often focus on?
A) Portraits of celebrities
B) Nature and landscapes
C) Abstract patterns
D) Wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience
  • 14. In what year did an Untitled painting by Basquiat sell for $110.5 million?
A) 2008
B) 2017
C) 1999
D) 2020
  • 15. What was the name of the book Jean-Michel Basquiat and Marc Prozzo created when he was seven?
A) The Art of Graffiti
B) The Adventures of SAMO
C) Basquiat's Diary
D) A children's book written by Basquiat at age seven and illustrated by Prozzo
  • 16. What injury did Basquiat sustain in 1968?
A) Fractured leg
B) Broken arm and several internal injuries requiring a splenectomy
C) Burns
D) Concussion
  • 17. Which languages was Basquiat fluent in by the age of 11?
A) French, Spanish, and English
B) German, Italian, and Russian
C) Japanese, Chinese, and Korean
D) Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish
  • 18. Where did Basquiat's family move to in 1974?
A) Miami, Florida
B) Houston, Texas
C) Miramar, Puerto Rico
D) Los Angeles, California
  • 19. What school did Basquiat attend after moving back to Brooklyn in 1976?
A) Edward R. Murrow High School
B) Brooklyn Technical High School
C) Stuyvesant High School
D) Queens High School for the Sciences
  • 20. What alternative high school did Basquiat enroll in?
A) High School of Art and Design
B) Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
C) Stuyvesant High School
D) City-As-School
  • 21. What was the original meaning behind the acronym 'SAMO'?
A) 'Same old shit'
B) Society of American Modernists
C) Save Art, Make Ourselves Known
D) Street Art Movement Organization
  • 22. Which publication featured an article about the SAMO graffiti in December 1978?
A) The Village Voice
B) High Times
C) Artforum
D) Rolling Stone
  • 23. On which television show did Basquiat appear in 1979, hosted by Glenn O'Brien?
A) Late Night with David Letterman
B) The Tonight Show
C) Saturday Night Live
D) TV Party
  • 24. Which band did Basquiat and Michael Holman found in April 1979?
A) The Clash
B) Gray
C) Test Pattern
D) The Ramones
  • 25. Where did Basquiat live with his girlfriend Alexis Adler during the late 1970s?
A) Lower Manhattan
B) Harlem
C) Greenwich Village
D) East Village
  • 26. What type of diagrams did Basquiat often copy from Alexis Adler's textbooks?
A) Mathematical equations
B) Biological cell diagrams
C) Anatomical diagrams
D) Chemical compound diagrams
  • 27. Where did Basquiat sell his postcards in SoHo?
A) W.P.A. restaurant
B) Max's Kansas City
C) CBGB
D) Hurrah
  • 28. What was the title of the postcard sold to Andy Warhol?
A) Stupid Games, Bad Ideas
B) SAMO© AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO GOD
C) MAN MADE
D) The State of the Outlaw Art
  • 29. What was the name of Basquiat's clothing line created at A's?
A) "SAMO"
B) "MAN MADE"
C) "TEST PATTERN"
D) "GRAY"
  • 30. Which boutique carried Basquiat's clothing line in November 1979?
A) The Limelight Storefront
B) Patricia Field's upscale boutique
C) Maxfield Parrish Gallery
D) Annina Nosei Gallery
  • 31. In which year did Jean-Michel Basquiat participate in The Times Square Show?
A) 1982
B) 1981
C) 1980
D) 1979
  • 32. Who mentioned Basquiat in an article titled 'Report from Times Square'?
A) Jeffrey Deitch
B) Sandro Chia
C) Diego Cortez
D) Rene Ricard
  • 33. Which magazine published Rene Ricard's article 'The Radiant Child'?
A) Art in America
B) Rolling Stone
C) Artforum
D) Vogue
  • 34. What was the title of Basquiat's first painting sold to Debbie Harry?
A) Rapture
B) Cadillac Moon
C) Downtown 81
D) Radiant Child
  • 35. Who financially supported Jean-Michel Basquiat during his early career?
A) Debbie Harry
B) Suzanne Mallouk
C) Emilio Mazzoli
D) Annina Nosei
  • 36. Which gallery did Annina Nosei invite Basquiat to join?
A) Gallery in Modena
B) P.S.1
C) Fashion Moda
D) Her own gallery
  • 37. Where was Basquiat's first American one-man show held?
A) Modena gallery
B) Annina Nosei Gallery
C) P.S.1
D) Collaborative Projects Incorporated
  • 38. What was the reason Basquiat gave for canceling his second Italian exhibition?
A) Poor sales at previous exhibitions
B) Lack of interest from the public
C) He felt exploited due to tight deadlines.
D) Disagreement with the curator
  • 39. Who recommended Basquiat's work to Italian dealer Emilio Mazzoli?
A) Rene Ricard
B) Annina Nosei
C) Sandro Chia
D) Jeffrey Deitch
  • 40. In which music video did Basquiat appear as a disc jockey?
A) 'Radiant Child'
B) Blondie's 'Rapture'
C) 'Downtown 81'
D) 'Cadillac Moon'
  • 41. What was the record high for Basquiat's annual auction sales in 2021?
A) $439.6 million
B) $20.1 million
C) $115 million
D) $110.5 million
  • 42. How many of Basquiat's works did Emilio Mazzoli purchase in 1981?
A) Ten
B) Five
C) Twenty
D) Fifteen
  • 43. Which jazz musician was particularly a hero for Basquiat?
A) Miles Davis
B) Charlie Parker
C) John Coltrane
D) Louis Armstrong
  • 44. Who did Basquiat befriend in Paris during his exhibition?
A) Francesco Clemente
B) Ivorian artist Ouattara Watts
C) Keith Haring
D) Glenn O'Brien
  • 45. What was the name of the imprint under which Jean-Michel Basquiat pressed the limited edition 'Beat Bop' record?
A) Tartown Inc.
B) Interview
C) Gemini G.E.L.
D) Whitney Biennial
  • 46. What is a major theme in Basquiat's Slave Auction (1982) and Jim Crow (1986)?
A) The Industrial Revolution
B) African-American history
C) Medieval European battles
D) Space exploration
  • 47. Which book significantly influenced Jean-Michel Basquiat's depictions of human anatomy?
A) The Anatomy of the Human Body
B) Human Physiology
C) Gray's Anatomy
D) Anatomy for Artists
  • 48. By what percentage did Basquiat's annual auction sales fall in 2022?
A) 100%
B) 75%
C) 25%
D) 50%
  • 49. In what year did the authentication committee announce its dissolution?
A) 2023
B) 2008
C) 2012
D) 2016
  • 50. In which year did Basquiat's first public showing of paintings and drawings occur at MoMA PS1?
A) 1979
B) 1981
C) 1985
D) 1983
  • 51. How many drawings did Jean-Michel Basquiat produce during his career?
A) Around 600
B) Around 1,500
C) Less than 1,000
D) Over 2,000
  • 52. Who organized a show of Jean-Michel Basquiat's work at her friend's New York apartment in April 1983?
A) Jennifer Goode
B) Lee Jaffe
C) Paige Powell
D) Madonna
  • 53. Who curated the exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure?
A) Rene Ricard
B) Franklin Sirmans
C) Marc Mayer
D) Basquiat's family
  • 54. Who found Jean-Michel Basquiat unresponsive?
A) Glenn O'Brien
B) Keith Haring
C) His girlfriend Kelle Inman
D) Paige Powell
  • 55. Which art historian situates Basquiat's anatomical screen prints as an assertion of vulnerability?
A) Olivier Berggruen
B) Kellie Jones
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Fred Hoffman
  • 56. What was the highest amount paid for an original work of Basquiat's before 2002?
A) $5.5 million
B) $20 million
C) $3.3 million
D) $10 million
  • 57. What was the title of the exhibition that caused a rift in Jean-Michel Basquiat's friendship with Andy Warhol?
A) Olympics (1984)
B) Taxi, 45th/Broadway
C) Paintings
D) Zenith
  • 58. Which fashion designer's runway did Jean-Michel Basquiat walk for in 1985?
A) Armani
B) Comme des Garçons
C) Gagosian
D) Boone
  • 59. Which art critic wrote that Basquiat experienced a good taste of fame in his last years?
A) Franklin Sirmans
B) Robert Hughes
C) Hilton Kramer
D) Bonnie Rosenberg
  • 60. In which year did Basquiat appear on the cover of The New York Times Magazine?
A) 1986
B) 1985
C) 1987
D) 1984
  • 61. Where did Jean-Michel Basquiat move into a loft owned by Andy Warhol in August 1983?
A) Venice Beach, California
B) Market Street studio space
C) 57 Great Jones Street, NoHo
D) Salzburg, Austria
  • 62. Who compared Basquiat's work to the emergence of hip-hop?
A) Rene Ricard
B) Franklin Sirmans
C) David Bowie
D) Niru Ratnam
  • 63. Which painting by Basquiat references Charlie Parker?
A) Untitled (Axe/Rene) (1984)
B) Charles the First (1982)
C) King Zulu (1986)
D) Horn Players (1983)
  • 64. What was the sale price of Untitled (Head) (1982) in June 2020?
A) $10.8 million
B) $41.8 million
C) $15.2 million
D) $20.9 million
  • 65. Which artist was a collector of Basquiat's works?
A) David Bowie
B) Robert Hughes
C) Andy Warhol
D) Franklin Sirmans
  • 66. What was the title of the collaborative work Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol created for the 1984 Summer Olympics?
A) Zenith
B) Taxi, 45th/Broadway
C) Paintings
D) Olympics (1984)
  • 67. What was the sale price of Self-Portrait as a Heel (Part Two) (1982) at Sotheby's in 2023?
A) $46.5 million
B) $67.1 million
C) $42 million
D) $48.3 million
  • 68. What was the cost of obtaining an opinion from Basquiat's authentication committee?
A) $50
B) $200
C) $500
D) $100
  • 69. Who purchased Basquiat's first painting in 1981?
A) Singer Debbie Harry
B) Drummer Lars Ulrich
C) Mary Boone
D) Gallerist Emilio Mazzoli
  • 70. What was the title of Rene Ricard's article that brought Basquiat to the attention of the art world?
A) Child Prodigy
B) The Radiant Artist
C) Basquiat: The Rising Star
D) Radiant Child
  • 71. Who sued the Basquiat authentication committee in 2008?
A) Gerard De Geer
B) Guido Orsi
C) Tony Shafrazi
D) Basquiat's sisters
  • 72. What was the title of the painting Jean-Michel Basquiat created after his first meeting with Andy Warhol?
A) Equals Pi
B) A Panel of Experts
C) Hollywood Africans
D) Dos Cabezas
  • 73. Who purchased Untitled (1982) for $57.3 million at Christie's in 2017?
A) American businessman Ken Griffin
B) Drummer Lars Ulrich
C) Gallerist Emilio Mazzoli
D) Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa
  • 74. What did Basquiat design for André Heller's Luna Luna amusement park?
A) A carousel
B) A Ferris wheel
C) A roller coaster
D) A bumper car attraction
  • 75. Where is Jean-Michel Basquiat buried?
A) Manhattan's Central Park
B) Cabrini Medical Center
C) Hamburg
D) Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery
  • 76. What did Basquiat paint on during this period?
A) Blank walls
B) Canvas only
C) Objects found in the streets
D) Leather jackets
  • 77. Basquiat reclaims blackness from what process?
A) "Aesthetic colonization"
B) Cultural appropriation
C) Political marginalization
D) Economic exploitation
  • 78. Which artist's work did Jean-Michel Basquiat take considerable interest in while visiting Gemini G.E.L.?
A) Robert Rauschenberg
B) Andy Warhol
C) Madonna
D) George Condo
  • 79. What was the sale price of Sugar Ray Robinson (1982) at Christie's in 2022?
A) $67.1 million
B) $42 million
C) $46.5 million
D) $32.6 million
  • 80. Who got to know Basquiat well as the editor of Artforum?
A) Francesco Clemente
B) Paige Powell
C) Keith Haring
D) Ingrid Sischy
  • 81. Which spiritual tradition's symbolism is alluded to by the skulls in Basquiat's paintings such as Red Skull and Untitled?
A) Buddhist philosophy
B) Haitian Vodou
C) Christian iconography
D) Islamic art
  • 82. Which piece by Basquiat juxtaposes evolutionary science with themes of marginality?
A) Irony of Negro Policeman
B) Hollywood Africans
C) Untitled (Charles Darwin)
D) Dustheads
  • 83. Which art dealer became Jean-Michel Basquiat's worldwide representative after he left the Annina Nosei Gallery?
A) Fay Gold
B) Mary Boone
C) Bruno Bischofberger
D) Larry Gagosian
  • 84. What was the name of the nightclub where Jean-Michel Basquiat sometimes worked as a DJ?
A) Palladium
B) Area
C) Tail o' the Pup
D) Whisky a Go Go
  • 85. What does Basquiat's depiction of the black body resist?
A) Surrealist techniques
B) Traditional portraiture
C) Abstract forms
D) Reductive racial representations
  • 86. What was the name of Jean-Michel Basquiat's girlfriend who he claimed would become famous?
A) Madonna
B) Lee Jaffe
C) Paige Powell
D) Jennifer Goode
  • 87. How much did singer Debbie Harry pay for Basquiat's first painting?
A) $200
B) $5,000
C) $10,000
D) $3.3 million
  • 88. Who sold Profit I (1982) at Christie's in 2002?
A) Drummer Lars Ulrich
B) Gallerist Emilio Mazzoli
C) Singer Debbie Harry
D) Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa
  • 89. Which app announced the sale of an untitled drawing on paper for $10.8 million in 2020?
A) Sotheby's App
B) Christie's App
C) Fair Warning
D) Phillips App
  • 90. Which nightclub did Jean-Michel Basquiat paint murals for?
A) Whisky a Go Go
B) Tail o' the Pup
C) Palladium
D) Area
  • 91. For how much did Yusaku Maezawa sell Untitled (1982) at Phillips in 2022?
A) $110.5 million
B) $57.3 million
C) $85 million
D) $20.9 million
  • 92. What year were three paintings displayed as Basquiats at the FIAC revealed to be fakes?
A) 2007
B) 1994
C) 2014
D) 2002
  • 93. What was the sale price of Crowns (Peso Neto) (1981) at Sotheby's in 2025?
A) $67.1 million
B) $42 million
C) $48.3 million
D) $46.5 million
  • 94. Who photographed Basquiat at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery?
A) Keith Haring
B) Glenn O'Brien
C) Francesco Clemente
D) Allen Ginsberg
  • 95. What cultural elements are suggested by the heads in Basquiat's works like Untitled (Two Heads on Gold) and Philistines?
A) American pop culture
B) Japanese samurai helmets
C) African masks, suggesting a cultural reclamation
D) : European classical art
  • 96. Who read a poem by Langston Hughes at Basquiat's memorial?
A) John Lurie
B) Ingrid Sischy
C) His friend Fab 5 Freddy
D) David Shapiro
  • 97. Basquiat's relationship with which culture enriches his aesthetic of blackness?
A) Jazz
B) Opera
C) Hip-hop culture
D) Classical music
  • 98. Which city did Jean-Michel Basquiat visit for an exhibition organized by Bruno Bischofberger in October 1986?
A) Paris, France
B) Atlanta, Georgia
C) Abidjan, Ivory Coast
D) Salzburg, Austria
  • 99. In which city did Jean-Michel Basquiat have his last exhibition on the West Coast in January 1986?
A) Paris
B) Los Angeles
C) New York City
D) Atlanta, Georgia
  • 100. Where was the public memorial for Basquiat held?
A) Yvon Lambert Gallery
B) Saint Peter's Church
C) Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel
D) Cabrini Medical Center
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