Keith Haring 1958-1990 By: Kandalynn

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Mrs. Getzen: Art 1

Keith Haring
● May 4, 1958, Born in Reading,
Pennsylvania
● 1976 Kutztown High School
Graduation & Enrollment in Ivy school
of Professional Art in Pittsburgh
● 1978 Pittsburgh arts and Crafts center
● Move to New York; enrollment in
School of Visual Arts

Inspiration: Father, Mickey Mouse, Dr.

Seuss, Andy Warhol, Robert Henri
Most Iconic Pieces of Art
● 1981: First Solo exhibitions at Westbeth
Painters Space
● 1982: Tony Shafrazi Gallery
● 1986: Pop shop
● 1988: AIDS Diagnosis; Keith Haring
Foundation to support children's
programs and organizations dedicated to
AIDS awareness

Over the brief span of his career, Keith

completed more than 50 public works,
collaborated with multiple artists and
performers, including Andy Warhol, Grace
Jones and William S. Burroughs.
 What was going on, Politically, Historically,
and Culturally?
Haring was a social activist. He called attention
to a variety of topics he felt the public should be
aware of, concerned of, and take action against
through drawings with deceptively simple style
and deeper themes of love, death, war and social
harmony, continues to appeal strongly to
viewers.

His art is still exhibited worldwide, and many of

his works are owned by prestigious museums,
including the Art Institute of Chicago, the
Museum of Modern Art in New York City and
the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France.
My favorite part about his Art
● Simple figures
● Bold Lines
● Essentic designs
● Bright Colors
● Priceless and forever impactful messages
● Outreach to the public
● Surreal message and interpretations
 Quotes:

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and
encourages people to go further.”

“See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.”

“I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals

as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no
final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception
of the piece.”
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