keith haring

Keith Haring May 4^th 1958-Febuary 16^th  1990 aged 31.

Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and was raised in nearby Kutztown, Pennsylvania. He had developed his drawing skills at a very young age by learning how to draw cartoons from his dad and from Disney movies. 

Keith’s work is all based around cartoon graffiti. In 1980, Haring found a highly effective medium that allowed him to communicate with the wider audience he desired, he noticed the unused advertising panels covered with matte black paper in a subway. He created drawings in white chalk on blank paper panels throughout the subway. Between 1980 and 1985, Haring produced hundreds of these public drawings in rapid rhythmic lines, sometimes creating as many as forty subway drawings in one day.

He achieved his first public attention with the chalk drawing of The Radiant Baby and this became his symbol.

In 1985 Haring started to paint canvas. Simultaneously, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux opened an exhibition of his works, and took part in the Paris Biennial.