Upon graduation from high school in , Haring enrolled in the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, a commercial arts school.
He soon realized that he had little interest in becoming a commercial graphic artist and, after two semesters, dropped out. While in Pittsburgh, Haring continued to study and work on his own and in had a solo exhibition of his work at the Pittsburgh Arts and Crafts Center. In New York, Haring found a thriving alternative art community that was developing outside the gallery and museum system, in the downtown streets, the subways and spaces in clubs and former dance halls.
Here he became friends with fellow artists Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as the musicians, performance artists and graffiti writers that comprised the burgeoning art community. Haring was swept up in the energy and spirit of this scene and began to organize and participate in exhibitions and performances at Club 57 and other alternative venues.
With these influences Haring was able to push his own youthful impulses toward a singular kind of graphic expression based on the primacy of the line. As a student at SVA, Haring experimented with performance, video, installation and collage, while always maintaining a strong commitment to drawing. His work run parallel to that of Jean-Michel Basquiat , Kenny Scharf , and other s artists and engages with a variety of media and techniques, such as drawing, painting, body art, graffiti.
Haring produced monumental public works that contributed to bringing recognition to Street art and to its entrance into museums.
He used few basic colors in hyper-saturated hues, applied as flat areas of paint and shaped into thick silhouettes. He gave his works a distinctively graphic, cartoonish quality and relied on repetitive motifs in creating a visual commentary of both his private experiences and the larger culture of his time. Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in He took up painting and drawing at an early age and moved to New York in in search for artistic inspiration, after dropping out of a commercial art school.
He first experimented with a variety of media, producing performance pieces and painted environments in the technique of action painting. These first experiments will lead to the creation of a distinctive style dominated by linearity, patterns, easily legible subject matters, a bright palette, and absolute freedom of expression.
In , he also moved towards figuration. His most recurring subjects include dancing human figures, crawling babies, barking dogs, flying saucers, pyramids, heart motifs, and other familiar elements. The artistic tendencies of New York in s provided Haring with a vibrant framework for the elaboration of his own artistic practice. He also actively engaged with the political scenario of his time.
The element of improvisation, the pulsating rhythm and moves of hip-hop particularly attracted Haring, who transcribed these elements directly into his compositions and figures. Fluorescent colors and thick, black lines shaped into silhouettes dominate these works. Haring surrounds the contours of his figures with thick markings and lightning bolts that emphasize the movement of the dancers and their physical interactions, which always take place on a single plane in a completely bi-dimensional space.
His figures are engaged in intricate exchanges and gestures, with bent, interlocking limbs shaped into angular patterns that also recall the art of ancient Egypt. In these works, human bodies are densely arranged in rhythmic compositions, creating an overall visual effect of abstract, hyper-decorated surface. In , the artist held his first important solo gallery exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in Soho and received an invitation to participate to Documenta , one of the most important venues for contemporary artists in the world.
From to , he gained increasing international recognition and critical attention. During these years, he showed his works in different galleries, including Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, Robert Fraser Gallery in London, and Galerie Watari in Tokyo, and worked on a series of public art projects around the world, such as painting a mural at the Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria , creating backdrops and costumes for contemporary ballets, like Secret Pastures , and designing a logo for an anti-litter campaign for the city of New York.
This extremely varied string of commissions, which were often linked to humanitarian causes that Haring particularly cared about, contributed to establishing his style as iconic and recognizable. In , he opened his own Pop Shop in Manhattan, selling merchandise and items decorated with his own characteristic images.
Although not as highly thought of, by art critics , as his friend and fellow artist Jean-Michel Basquiat , Haring attracted a widespread following for his brand of public art , exhibited with New York's most influential dealer Leo Castelli , and successfully bridged the gap between contemporary art proper and the more low-brow mass market.
Probably best-known for his image "Radiant Baby" and his mural painting entitled "Crack is Wack", painted in orange and black on a playground wall adjacent to Harlem River Drive, in New York. Although his career was tragically cut short by AIDS, for a time he was one of New York's top contemporary artists , and his work was shown in several of America's best galleries of contemporary art , as well as a number of the best contemporary art festivals , such as Documenta 7, the Sao Paolo Biennial and the Whitney Biennial.
That said, Haring's images - really the ultimate form of pop art - remain the simplest and most immediate of any produced by these three postmodernist artists , and this is reflected in his popularity among the general public.
Early Life and Street Art. He was producing mostly abstract paintings when, toward the end of , he noticed that the New York transit authority covered the posters on the subway platforms with black paper after the rental period on the advertisement expired. He found these black panels irresistible surfaces and his white chalk drawings in the subways soon became his consuming passion.
By his own estimate, he drew over 5, of them between and Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist best known for his boldly-colored parodies of comic strips and advertisements. Mark Rothko is best known as one of the central figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement in American art in the s and '60s. Keith Raniere was the head of NXIVM, an organization that promised self-improvement, but devolved into a cult of criminality and coercion.
Jean-Michel Basquiat was a Neo-Expressionist painter in the s. He is best known for his primitive style and his collaboration with pop artist Andy Warhol.
Until his assassination, he vigorously supported Black nationalism. Modernist abstract painter and collage artist Lee Krasner, wife of Jackson Pollock, created the 'Little Image' painting series and the multimedia collage 'Milkweed. American artist Keith Haring was best known for his graffiti-inspired drawings, which he first made in subway stations and later exhibited in museums.
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