Monday, March 9, 2009

Keith Haring?
May 4,1958-February 16,1990
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania
Died in New York City, New York
Died of AIDS
Interested in art at an early age
Studied graphic design for 2 years
At the Ivy School of Professional Art
Inspired by graffiti
Studied at the School of Visual Arts
First public attention
Chalk draws in the New York Subways

Bold lines, vivid colors, and active figures carry a strong message
Meaning life and unity
Keith Haring created a tag called the radiant ( Christ ) Child.
He said the child was a meaning “the purest and most positive experience of human existence.”
In drawing his child with energized rays emanating from its body, Haring was mimicking a well‐known convention in religious art, popular in medieval and Renaissance painting. One example can be seen in the many Mexican representations of the Virgin of Guadalupe
The Radiant Child, the powerful rays emanate from the Virgin's body, emphasizing her holiness.
Similar to this image of the Virgin, Haring said, these “lines radiating from the baby indicate spiritual light glowing from within, as though the baby were a holy figure from a religious painting, only the glow is rendered in the visual vocabulary of a cartoon.”
As a teenager, he drew straightforward Nativity scenes, complete with the traditional rays of divine light radiating from the baby Jesus.
These scenes were later transformed into unique representations of the Nativity in his emerging cartoon style, such as a drawing he completed during his subway years over the Christmas season.
Haring started organizing exhibits in 1980
1981
Sketched his first chalk drawings
On:
Black paper
Painted plastic
Metal
Found objects
Andy Warhol
Theme of several of Haring’s pieces
Even after Haring was well known, he preferred to still draw in subways.
Haring didn’t have to worry about police so much rather than the people who wanted to take his artwork in the subways of New York.

1 comment:

  1. Presentation in class was good but presentation on line has no visuals. 7.5 points

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