Keith Haring Painting At The Walker Art Center (Video)

Here’s rare footage of the late pop artist Keith Haring painting an interior mural at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN in 1984.

“Keith Haring ranks among the most iconic, influential and popular artists in the world. Twenty years after his death, this is a rare and in-depth look at the prolific early years that established Haring’s language as an artist, his politics and social conscience, and his open homosexuality.”

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“Keith Haring: 1978-1982″ is a new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum that focuses on his early career from ages 20-24. The exhibition runs through July 8, 2012.

Although he only lived until age 31, Haring was very prolific, popular, and influential. Haring was born in 1958 in Reading, PA, but it was New York, where he moved in 1978, that launched his career as an internationally known pop artist.

Haring passed away in 1990, but his art continues to influence fashion and entertainment. Designers and brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Patricia Field, Schott, Zara, and Nicholas Kirkwood have collaborated with the Keith Haring Foundation on clothing and accessories.

The Brooklyn Museum exhibition includes 155 works on paper, plus 150 archival objects, including black-and-white subway drawings, experimental videos, sketchbooks, journals, fliers, and documentary photographs.

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Keith Haring : Art : Introduction

Welcome to the Keith Haring art database. We have developed this online archive in an effort to make the artwork of Keith Haring more widely available to researchers, educators, students and anyone interested in learning more about the work of Keith Haring. We hope you find this resource helpful.

To navigate the database, simply select a year on the left hand side; under each year you will see a medium to choose from; when you select a medium you will see a page of thumbnail images. Click on the thumbnail image to see a full size picture and to learn more about an artwork. You may also search the database by using the key word search box at the bottom of the left hand menu or view the search help page. However, the search function only works with the image database and does not search text in the essays, press, etc. in the rest of the site.

Please note that the contents of this site are for personal and/or educational use only. The artwork of Keith Haring may not be reproduced in any form without express written permission of the Keith Haring Studio.

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Ever come across Keith Haring's art work?  Maybe on a poster, maybe on a t-shirt, maybe on a mouse pad, but how about on a cake?  Unique outlines of people dancing and celebrating were a perfect fit for this couple who wanted to express themselves through the design of their wedding cake.  

This Keith Haring inspired cake was covered in black fondant, the dancing figures were piped on with royal, then hand painted gold with edible dust.  The J & J logo, created by the couple themselves, was a perfect design for the center.  Topping it all off were two dancing dogs, which is another iconic image of Keith Haring.

Design Spotlight: Happy Earth Day from Keith Haring

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. - Keith Haring 

 

Earth Day promotes an awareness of our environment, unifying us at a global level for this cause. In honor of today's celebrations, I'd like to celebrate an artist and designer who advocated unity of humanity: Keith Haring. Haring was an American artist who achieved immense popularity for his painting and public art in the 1980s, and whose life was cut short by AIDS. He was an advocate for social unity, sexual awareness, and his messages were delivered with an iconic flair. Thank you Keith Haring for your socially conscious contribution to the art world!

Keith Haring Pop Art & Fashion

Andy Wharol and Keith Haring

Art Is Power: Keith Haring

“I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.” – Keith Haring

Born and raised in Reading, Pennsylvania, Keith Haring is the subject of this Art Is Power special. Getting his start by drawings that were discovered in the New York City Subways, Keith went on to use his art as his voice to speak about highly controversial subjects of the time. His style of "Pop Art" is seen in all his paintings, and his use of loud colors and intricate designs make him one of the true founders of Pop Art. In 1988 he was diagnosed with HIV-AIDS, and used his last years of life creating art that enlisted and spoke about the illness of AIDS, and a push for the cure. In 1990, Keith died at the age of 31, but his legacy lives on today, with such artists like Madonna and U2 using his work on tour and in song. The Universe of Keith Haring is a 2008 documentary by the filmmaker Christina Clausen about Haring. In the film, the legacy of Haring is resurrected through colorful archival footage and remembered by friends and admirers such as artists Kenny Scharf and Yoko Ono, gallery owners Jeffrey Deitch and Tony Shafrazi, and the choreographer Bill T. Jones. Some of his work is displayed below...

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Im Obsessed with Keith Harings work, using him as artist inspiration for my end of year project

Keith Haring Artwork

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ARTIST

Keith Haring lived in Kutztown Pennsylvania. He was very inspired by graffiti art and chalk drawings. Keith had a specific way of drawing, his big bold movement lines and vivid colors stood out anywhere. He started out with chalk and went on to design with metal and plastic The Radiant baby became his symbol.
We used Keith’s style of art to make our own pictures then combined together to make one similiar to the colour picture above.

Keith Haring's Idea

A work by Keith Haring – late NYC street artist – has appeared in the underpass of a little town in the centre of England, another part of the Global Village. It is very colourful and vibrant - just what is needed in a cold and wet February.

This other work by Keith and shown below has a nice idea for sustainable development with the big red guy providing a bridge for the little green guys.

Happy Birthday. Keith Haring.

I Heart Keith Haring

Keith Haring. Artist. Gay icon. Graffiti artist. Classic of the 1980's. AIDs advocate. Did amazing work. If your in Melbourne look out for his graffiti, there's a few still around from the 80's. There's one at 35 Johnston St, Collingwood. Read about it here. Or even better, go for a walk and check it out. Here's a Google graffiti map for Melbourne.

Keith Haring Wallpapers

Keith Haring's Pop Shop est. 1986

From 1986 to 2005, Keith Haring's Pop Shop served to fulfill the artist's desire to make his iconic and beloved imagery accessible to the widest possible range of people both during his lifetime and posthumously through the Keith Haring Foundation, Inc. 
 
Haring, who embraced the idea of his artwork engaging popular culture, opened the doors to his unique and innovative retail environment. The original shop interior included Haring's floor to ceiling murals, which provided a pioneering clubhouse atmosphere for the sale of T-shirts, hats and other apparel and accessories bearing his well-known imagery. Haring, who viewed the Pop Shop as an extension of his work, stated:

"Here's the philosophy behind the Pop Shop: I wanted to continue the same sort of communication as with the subway drawings. I wanted to attract the same wide range of people and I wanted it to be a place where, yes, not only collectors could come, but also kids from the Bronx…this was still an art statement." 

Pop Shop and Design is a registered trademark of the Estate of Keith Haring.

Strange Fruit Vintage's Memphis Pop Up Shop at Odessa on August 6th will be an engaging tribute to one of my favorite artists of all time, Keith Haring.  Enjoy!

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I posted a link to a graffiti artist yesterday, so it's only fitting Google Doodle honors one today. After all, the world only follows the things I do.

Google doodle today honors the legacy of Keith Haring, an artist and activist who would have been 54 Friday.

The Fabulous Universe Of Keith Haring

Over the weekend I watched an excellent documentary about artist Keith Haring (above) on Logo called The Universe of Keith Haring. I recommend it highly.

I am not very knowledgeable about art, but one artist I admire greatly is the late Keith Haring. Like me, he was born and raised in small-town Pennsylvania but decided to move to New York City and make a new life for himself.

And what a fabulous life it was. Keith started doing chalk drawings of his "Radiant Baby" in the subway during the early 1980's, and people began noticing his work. By the mid-80's, he was hanging with Madonna (with Keith, below) and Andy Warhol and selling his paintings for thousands of dollars each. Reading about Keith was one of the things that made me want to move to NYC myself.


Also like me, Keith was attracted to Latino men, and he had at least two boyfriends named "Juan" (below is Keith with boyfriend Juan Rivera). In the documentary, photographer David LaChapelle revealed that Keith once tried really hard to get to know David's Papi boyfriend one night at a club, while completely ignoring David. Trust me, us Pennsylvania bitches DO NOT PLAY when it comes to the pursuit of Latino Men - which LaChappelle found out.


Before I lived here, when I would visit New York I would always stop at Keith's "Pop Shop" (below). The Pop Shop sold t-shirts and other merchandise featuring Keith's bold graphics (it closed in 2005) - and I ended up buying a couple of t-shirts. In fact, I wore my Keith Haring tee at Penn State as a very subtle way of saying "I'm gay" to anyone who may have recognized Keith's work. It was like my personal version of the 1970's gay hanky/bandana codes. I was still mostly in the closet, and the majority of Penn State's straight population had no idea who Keith Haring was - so it was a great way to attract attention, without attracting the wrong kind of (homophobic) attention.


Sadly, Keith died of AIDS in 1990 - before I moved to New York. I would have loved to have seen him just once - at a club or on the street - but I got here too late. But one of the cool things about Haring's work is how public and permanent much of it is. In fact - the public restroom at New York's Gay and Lesbian Center was painted by Haring in the 1980's - and the mural still remains today. I am proud to say I have peed in the Keith Haring bathroom!


If you get the chance, watch The Universe of Keith Haring - it is an excellent documentary about an extremely talented man.