The Radiant Child - All About Jean-Michel Basquiat

"It is Basquiat's own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man," from the Sundance Film Festival.

Friend of Jean-Michel Basquiat and director Tamra Davis presents The Radiant Child, a definitive documentary delving into Basquiat as an iconoclast.

There is so much to say about Basquiat, the man, the artist -- his dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged in the dynamic 1980s downtown New York pop art scene. Today Basquiat's creations sell for millions of dollars and is in the collection of every major art institution on the globe and many private collections as well. However, Basquiat's success was not without peril. At that time - and still today - many artists, as Basquiat was, are constantly confronted by elitism, classism, racism, misconceptions and sheer ignorance.

Watch Jean-Michel for yourself and learn most everything he faced and addresses in The Radiant Child is alive today only massaged by importing our hip hop artists from Canada {Drake}, our Soul chanteuses from England {Adele} and our artists from scions.

Jean-Michel Basquiat arrived onto the art scene with passion, drive, history and vision. See The Radiant Child.

Where have our geniuses gone? SNEAK PEAK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqABlH3IBfA