Keith Haring PP, DBAE, ART,

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Keith HaringArt of Element Focus: Line, Shape and Color


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Keith Haring was born

May 4, 1958 in Reading

Pennsylvania


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Growing up he wasnt interested

in most of the art he saw at the

galleries.

Keith wasnt interested in

creating the art with these oldpainting techniques either,

because he thought it was too

formal.

BORING

He found it too formal!


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Keith was more interested in the

art of the Pop Artists like Andy

Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein who

were considered unconventional

artists in the art world.

Pop Artists like Warhol and

Lichtensteins works were shapedby television commercials,

cartoons, comic strips and

advertisements.

Lichtenstein

Warhol


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Keith first attended college 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 didnt like the School of Visual Arts

either, and it wasnt 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!!!


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The Subway Artist

During the 1980s Keith

began his career in art in

the NYC subway station.


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This type of art was called Graffiti Art

Keith was inspired by the graffitiart he saw all around New York


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Positive aspects of Graffiti Art:

SpontaneousCreativeIs seen by

everyone


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Negative aspects of Graffiti Art:Uncontrolled graffiti can be destructiveMost of the time its illegal

Many times is promotes criminal activities.


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Haring was careful to draw on black paper

panels which were going to be covered. He also

used chalk because it was easily removable.


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Characteristics of Keith Haring drawings:

Bold

lines

Simplified and

stylized figures

Figures surrounded by rhythmic lines that

make them appear to vibrate or move.


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Characteristics of his drawings cont..)

Radiating Baby

Dancing People

Dogs Flying Saucers


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Harings work appealed to 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 sizedrawings looked like they were

supposed to be there.


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Keith Haring created hisown visual language. Hissymbols appear repeatedlyin different artworks of his.This type of pictorialwriting system is knownas pictographs.

Spaceship

Dog

Radiating BabyFiguresPyramid


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Like the pictographs of Egyptian hieroglyphics, Harings symbolschanged meaning depending on what they were placed next to. The

study of Harings symbols is called semiotics.

Egyptian

Haring


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In Harings works,

Dolphins symbolizepeace and love.


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In Harings work, two humans holding a

heart symbolizes love and romantic love.


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Three-eyed smiling face means greedorjoy


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arings work began as simple white on black figures butsoon he developed into complex compositions crammedwith dancing, pulsating figures.


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Haring repeated figures in rhythmic patterns so

the pattern itself became more predominant.


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Haring was also well known for being an artist that

created art work relating to social and political

causes, such as AIDS, drug use and literacy.


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Crack is Wack was created after one of his

studio assistants became addicted.


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As Haring became famous his artworks became

increasingly more and more expensive.

To ensure that his art continued to beavailable 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.


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Haring designed his Pop Shop to

be a work of art in itself.


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Haring did not limit himself to 2-Dimensional work.

He created many public sculptures. Some sculptures

were more than a couple stories high!


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Keith Haring died in

1990 from AIDS. He

was only 31 years old.

He may have died

young but his workremains some of the

most influential art of

today.


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WHAT YOU NEED/

DIRECTIONS

Prisma-color markers (I used Sharpies)

9 X 9 square white 12 X 12 black background

1. First practice drawing the Keith Haring

figures on a piece of scratch paper.

2. Show energy with the slash lines

3. Decide on a background

4. The lightly draw with a pencil your design5. Add LOTS of color and movement

6. MAKE IT BRIGHT AND FUN!


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