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Input (English): Jean-Michel Basquiat (] ; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO©, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, post-punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. Question: Michael Holman is an artist, writer, avant-garde musician, hip hop impresario and filmmaker as well as Early 1980s, Downtown Scene "subculturalist" best known as the screenwriter of the film, "Basquiat", and a founding member, of the experimental rock band Gray, along with which American artist, that died on August 12, 1988? Answer: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Output (English): JeanMichel Basquiat  ; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988 was an American artist.