Keith haring for kids images
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Keith’s Kids
It began with the baby, round of head and sublimely naked, crawling innocently across the walls of New York’s otherwise tense and grimy subway stations. Keith Haring first made a name for himself in the early 1980’s filling every blank poster-frame in the city’s sprawling underground system with hieroglyphs: skällande ljud dogs, ljusstråle zapping flying saucers, rubber-limbed dancers-and the radiant baby that best represented Haring’s energy and humanity. This summer, his art fryst vatten reappraised in a long-awaited retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. But Haring’s living legacy is on the streets, where his work was always more at home than in the white-walled confines of the gallery.
“The reason that the ‘baby’ has become my logo or signature fryst vatten that it is the purest and most positiv experience of human existence,” wrote Haring in his journal in 1986. “Children are color-blind and stil
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Who is Keith Haring?
Keith Haring was born in 1958, in Pennsylvania, USA. He loved drawing cartoons and visiting museums. Here he is travelling on the subway.
Keith Haring is known for colourful, cartoon artworks and certain characters such as crawling babies, barking dogs and spaceships.
When he was 20 years old he moved to New York City. Keith Haring had relationships with men and was a part of the LGBTQ+ community in New York.
In the 1980s, New York was very exciting place and there were many artists working in the same neighbourhood as Haring, such as Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat.
Keith Haring was inspired by graffiti artists. He drew hundreds of drawings on New York’s subway. He used chalk to make his art, like the image below.
People walked past his art every day. Imagine walking past artworks on your way to school every day!
He got in trouble sometimes for drawing on the subway, but many people loved his art. He carried on drawing because he w
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Keith Haring Art Project + Free Printables!
If you are not familiar with Keith Haring or his work, I highly recommend getting more acquainted with this Keith Haring art project. He is such an inspiring artist for many reasons, not just his work but also as a human. There is so much to love.
An American artist associated with both Pop Art and Graffiti, his style is distinct, mostly made from simple shapes and lines, often black and white, usually untitled creating space for interpretation and provoking thought. He was known for creating work on the NYC subway in the spaces usually designated for ads drawing in chalk in public spaces, unconcerned about being paid for the work or how long it lasted.
“I give my drawings away to help make the world a better place.” ~Keith Haring
While he rarely commented on interpretations of his work, he took a clear and strong stand against racism, homophobia and any form of ignorance. After gaining recognition as an artist, he be