The curator of a new Barbican exhibition on Jean-Michel Basquiat has selected five key works that show how the late American artist drew on a vast range of design influences ? including comic books, sweet wrappers and illustrations from Gray's Anatomy.
The exhibition titled Basquiat: Boom for Real brings together more than 100 artworks by the New York graffiti-artist-turned-painter, and is the first large-scale exhibition of his work in the UK.

Works included range from Basquiat's early graffiti work in the late 1970s under the pseudonym SAMO© ? an abbreviation of "same old, same old shit" ? to his collaborations with with high-profile artists like Andy Warhol and Keith Haring.
Speaking to Dezeen, assistant curator Lotte Johnson said that you can find direct connections between Basquiat's early work and everyday product designs, such as sweet wrappers and train tickets.
"He was constantly absorbing influences and references from the world around him," she told Dezeen.
"Some of his earliest works are these amazing collages he made with artist Jennifer Stein that take materials from around the studio and off the street, and paste them onto pieces of paper and photocopy them."
In these collages, Basquiat and Stein would take PEZ sweet wrappers, cut out the letters and rearrange them.
"They were taking graphic design ? the kind of symbols and signs they saw in the world around them ? and reconstituting them," said Johnson.
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