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Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. [1] His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". [2]
The outlines of the figures are filled in with blue, yellow, red and green, sometimes with a solid color and sometimes with patterns and symbols. [5] The northmost section of the mural, painted on a fence, contains the words "We the Youth: City Kids of Phila + NYC". Haring's initials and the date are located at the bottom right of the mural.
Haring agreed under the condition that he chose the location. [5] With permission from the Town Hall, Haring selected a square in the Raval, then a drug infested area known as the Barrio Chino (Chinatown). [6] AIDS was a delicate issue and most celebrities generally didn't talk about the epidemic. [7]
The wide-open generosity of spirit in Keith Haring's vivacious work is seen in the Broad's deft show, which culls together about 120 works that he created between 1982 and 1989.
Biographer Brad Gooch's "Radiant" reveals how much life and creativity artist Keith Haring packed into 31 years before he died of AIDS.
Artist Keith Haring had been following the SAMO graffiti and befriended Basquiat that year. Haring recalled: I still hadn't met Jean-Michel—I had only heard about him. Well, one day a kid came up to me just as I was going into SVA, and he asked if I could walk him through, past the security guard. He wanted to get inside the school.
Keith Haring was an idealistic, miraculous and astonishing innovator, according to Simon Doonan, writer, fashion industry darling and author of “Keith Haring (Lives of the Artist).” Releasing ...
In 1989, Haring told Rolling Stone: "Before I knew who he was, I became obsessed with Jean-Michel Basquiat's work." [2] He added, "The stuff I saw on the walls was more poetry than graffiti. They were sort of philosophical poems that would use the language the way Burroughs did – in that it seemed like it could mean something other than what ...