Keith Haring Howland New
- 1. Keith Haring Drawingwith Line
- 2. Keith Haring wasborn May 4, 1958 in Kuztown Pennsylvania
- 3. Growing up hewasn’t interested in most of the art he saw at the galleries. He wasn’t interested in creating the art either because he thought it was too formal. BORING Too Formal!
- 4. Keith was moreinterested in the art of the pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein who were considered unconventional artists in the art world. Their works were shaped by television commercials, cartoons, comic strips and advertisements.
- 5. Keith first attendedcollege at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts but in 1978 at the age of twenty he left Pittsburgh for the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Keith didn’t like the School of Visual Arts either and it wasn’t long before he began to skip classes and then stop going all together. He continued to live in NYC but was extremely poor and had to take the subway in order to go anyplace. Public Service Announcement STAY IN SCHOOL!!!
- 6. The Subway ArtistDuring the 1980’s Keith began his career in art in the NYC subway station.
- 7. This type ofart was called Graffiti Art Keith was inspired by the graffiti art he saw around him in NYC.
- 8. Positive aspects of Graffiti art Spontaneous Creative Is seen by everyone
- 9. Negative aspects ofGraffiti art: Uncontrolled graffiti can be destructive Most of the time it’s illegal
- 10. Haring was carefulto draw on black paper panels which were going to be covered. He also used chalk because it was easily removable.
- 11. Characteristics of hisdrawings: Bold lines Simplified and stylized figures Figures surrounded by rhythmic lines that make them appear to vibrate or move.
- 12. Characteristics of hisdrawings: Radiating Baby Dancing People Dogs Flying Saucers
- 13. Haring’s work appealedto many different types of people. Brought a human touch to the dingy and dirty subway stations. Images were whimsical, often humorous, and somewhat mysterious. Instead of looking like typical graffiti art, his poster size drawings looked like they were supposed to be there.
- 14. Keith Haring createdhis own visual language. His symbols appear repeatedly in different artworks of his. This type of pictorial writing system is known as pictographs. Spaceship Dog Radiating Baby Figures Pyramid
- 15. Like the pictographsof Egyptian hieroglyphics, Haring’s symbols changed meaning depending on what they were placed next to. The study of Haring’s symbols is called semiotics. Egyptian Haring
- 16. Dolphins Symbolize peaceand love
- 17. Two humans holdinga heart means romantic love
- 18. Three-eyed smiling facemeans greed or joy
- 19. Haring’s work beganas simple white on black figures but soon he developed into complex compositions crammed with dancing, pulsating figures.
- 20. He repeated figuresin rhythmic patterns so the pattern itself became more predominant than anyone figure.
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- 25. As Haring becamefamous his artworks became increasingly more and more expensive. To ensure that his art continued to be available at affordable prices to the general public he created the “Pop Shop” in NYC where he sold prints, stickers, buttons, and various other objects with his artwork on it .
- 26. Haring designed his“Pop Shop” to be a work of art in itself”
- 27. Haring did notlimit himself to 2-dimensional work. He created many public sculptures. Some more than a couple stories high.
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- 32. Untitled 1983,180” x 276”