This is a portrait of neo-expressionist artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat painted with acrylic paint on unframed canvas using a palette knife.  This is what makes the painting so unique-painting with a knife enables you to have texture that makes the painting come alive:  the hair has texture, so you can see and feel the strands, as do the eyebrows.

Basquiat was a charismatic, passionate artist, which is captured in his piercing gaze. This is a portrait of a confident man, who knew who he was and what he wanted to say to the world through his art.