Keith Haring
- Christie Rose
- Oct 21
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 2
Where/when:
American Artist, May 4, 1958- February 16, 1990
Mediums:
Mixed media
Murals
Painting
Drawing
Impact:
Art is for everyone
Activist
Pop shop
Keith Haring’s imagery is familiar worldwide for its trademark black lines, bright colors, and iconography of radiating babies, dancing men, and barking dogs. Haring achieved this recognition and executed his large body of work during the period of twelve years from 1978, when he moved to New York, until his death from AIDS-related causes in 1990. He was a vital part of the burgeoning 1980s New York art scene, from its beginnings in the East Village, amid other young artists such as Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. New York served not just as inspiration but as the site for much of his art, and it was there that he developed his spontaneous, free-flowing style of graffiti for decorating the surfaces of streets and subways.
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