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Forerunner of Street Art at the age of 16, his artistic language was born in the street.
Both music and comics have inspired his painting and he punctuates his works with symbols and words.
At the same age, Egon Schiele entered the Aca- demy of Fine Arts in Vienna and quickly emerged from the influence of Gustav Klimt to retain only its very particular forms and striking by the pain that emanates from it. His brush is violent; his angular lines twist into a malaise distorting the bodies to the extreme.
He often paints self-portraits like Basquiat and we find in the two rebels this same haughty rage with monumental challenging energy. Both flirted with death as if their appointment was obvious. Every second was to be lived as the last, every work had to spring before it was too late.
In just a dozen or so years of career for everyone, they produce works compulsively. Egon Schiele left nearly 3000 works on paper and 300 paintings; as for Jean-Michel Basquiat, he left the scene after more than 2000 drawings and a thousand paintings.