Basquiat, the Brooklyn born Neo-expressionist, pioneered the first wave graffiti->fine art pipeline, he sold his first painting to Blondie in 1981. Struggled with heroin addiction from his teens on, died at 27 of an OD. Signature style we'll be doing here is a combination of raw painted figures, three-point crowns, and scrawled text. Highly energetic, compressed, composition is dense and deliberately ungoverned.