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“I am a necessary part of an important search to which there is no end.” This is a quote from Keith Haring who dedicated his life to activism through art. Keith Haring was an American pop artist born in , primarily known for his graffiti art. His art gained popularity on the walls of the New York subways. Soon after, people began commissioning him for murals and other art forms. Keith made nearly 50 adj artworks between the years and He created murals for hospitals, daycare centers, and even schools. After gaining enough recognition, he opened The Pop Shop, where much of his political art was displayed. His art held many themes, such as anti-crack, anti-apartheid, safe sex, homosexuality, and AIDS awareness. Haring was a gay man who often watched his peers fall victim to AIDS and hate crimes. Since many of these topics were taboo to talk about during the 70s and 80s, he used his art as a way to speak about topics he supported. Unfortunately, Keith died in February of due to AIDS complications, but his legacy can be seen throughout America today.
Haring’s work is incredible,
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In honor of pride month I thought I would highlight Keith Haring, an openly gay man and artist who incorporated themes of sexuality, openness and inclusivity of the LGBTQ+ community, and activism for broadening the conversation surrounding AIDS. Haring, born in and having lived through Stonewall and a day period where homosexuality was illegal, as well as a period when there were misunderstandings surrounding AIDS and a lack of conversation, incorporated and let the events of those years affect much of his art. This was a very bold statement as homosexuality was illegal, but it also fit the hour as support was growing and New York had its first pride parade in
There are two works of Haring’s I want to specifically highlight, a poster celebrating the 20th anniversary of Stonewall which focuses on LGBTQ+ activism, and another serve titled Ignorance = Fear, which focuses on the silence surrounding AIDS.
The poster features four figures incorporated with gender symbols to symbolize lesbian and gay alike sex couples. The dashes surrounding their le
Keith Haring: Activist and Artist
It all started with a piece of chalk in the New York City subway.
From there, Keith Haring became a pronounced street artist as well as a dominant social activist.
Haring was truly an artist for the people. He devoted his career to bringing awareness to important world issues.
Among other things, he was an activist for the LGBT community and depicted his battle with AIDS throughout his career.
Read on to learn more about the inspiring legacy that began with chalk.
Early Life
Keith Haring was born in in Reading, Pennsylvania. His parents, Allen and Joan Haring raised Keith and his four siblings in Kutztown, PA.
His father was an amateur cartoonist, which is how Haring first gained insight into the art world. Haring soon developed a passion and niche for illustrating and drawing.
From a very early age, Haring immersed himself in his artistic learning. He often reproduced his favorite illustrations from Disney and Dr. Suess.
Haring’s early desire of illustrating set up his success later in life.
Education
After Haring graduated high scho
New Keith Haring biography explores collective memory of New York's gay artistic past
In his new biography of Keith Haring (), the New York-based writer Brad Gooch provides an exhaustive, often breathless, account of a life propelled by unremitting determination. Based on extensive research in the artist’s archive, and the testimonies of an army of interviewees and correspondents, it traces Haring’s passage from drawing-obsessed childhood in rural Pennsylvania to international art world celebrity.
Following high school graduation, Haring enrolled at a commercial art school in Pittsburgh, but left after six months, judging its vocational training irrelevant to his ambition to become a “real artist”. By the summer of , the 20 year vintage was in Manhattan, about to commence studies at the Institution of Visual Arts. Soon after his arrival he made his way to Christopher Street, the West Village’s homosexual epicentre. It was “like landing in a candy store or, better, a gay Disneyland”, as he later recalled. And it was in New York that he began to truly find himself, both as a gay man,