Keith haring facts for kids
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Key facts about Keith Haring
Keith Haring was an American artist born in 1958 in Pennsylvania in the USA. He died in 1990.
His work is known as or .
Keith's art often showed people and animals. He is well-known for his drawings of , , and .
He used to draw on spaces meant for posters and adverts. He cared a lot about making people feel happy and liked working with children.
The art that Keith created was used to expressTo communicate feelings or ideas. the things he cared about.
Watch Keith Haring and his creations
Narrator: Keith Haring grew up in Pennsylvania, in the USA.
He loved watching cartoons and his father taught him how to draw them.
Keith saw lots of adverts, celebrities and events in the news and they all inspired him.
Keith wanted to find a way to draw these things so that everyone could enjoy them, but in that cartoon style he loved so much. Pop art!
Pop art is based on events, adverts and celebrities that are popula
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Keith Haring facts for kids
Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows such as documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997.
Haring's popularity grew from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways—chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and other stylized images on blank black advertising spaces. After gaining public recognition, he created colorful larger scale murals, many commissioned. He produced more than 50 public artworks between 1982 and 1989, many of them created voluntarily for hospitals, day care centers and schools. In 1986, he opened the Pop Shop as an extension
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Bio
Keith Haring was born on May 4, 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania, and was raised in nearby Kutztown, Pennsylvania. He developed a love for drawing at a very early age, learning basic cartooning skills from his father and from the popular culture around him, such as Dr. Seuss and Walt Disney.
Upon graduation from high school in 1976, 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 1978 had a solo exhibition of his work at the Pittsburgh Arts and Crafts Center.
Later that same year, Haring moved to New York City and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts (SVA). 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