Keith Haring

American artist

1958 - 1990

Who wasKEITH HARING?

Biography:

American artist, 1958-1990

Art History Movements associated with: Pop Art, Neo-Expressionism, Street Art, Contemporary Art

Style: Simple, cartoony,focusing on line, shape, colorRhythm, movement, graffiti

Paintings, murals, clothing, had his own store called the Pop Shop

Check Out These Videos on

Keith Haring

Keith Haring Biohttps://youtu.be/Z7SnDuPX_JA

Keith Haring for Kidshttps://youtu.be/fqCBTNo8sr8

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”-KEITH HARING

SemioticsSigns and Symbols

“I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.”

-- Keith Haring

Paintings

DrawingsDrawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.”-KEITH HARING

SUBWAY DRAWINGS: GRAFFITI

“Art is nothing if you don’t reach every segment of the people.”

Sculpture

“The public has a right to art. The public is being ignored by most contemporary artists....Art is for everybody”-KEITH HARING

This mural (1986) on handball court at 128th Street and 2nd Avenue was inspired by the crack epidemic and its effect on New York City. It was created as a warning and was initially executed independently, without City permission. The mural was immediately put under the protection and jurisdiction of the City Department of Parks and still exists.

http://www.haring.com/!/art-work/108

Murals

BERLIN WALL MURALBERLIN, GERMANY, 1986http://www.haring.com/!/art-work/104

Please Read This Article about “We the Youth-Mural Artshttps://www.muralarts.org/artworks/we-the-youth/

Please watch this short video about the “We the Youth” mural projecthttps://youtu.be/Aeg0xiceHeM

Originally created in 1987, We the Youth is the only Keith Haring collaborative public mural remaining intact and on its original site.

Murals with Kids

ARTIST AS ACTIVIST:SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES

ARTIST AS ACTIVIST:SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES

ARTIST AS ACTIVIST:SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES

ARTIST AS ACTIVISTWHAT MESSAGES ABOUT SOCIAL ISSUES DO YOU SEE?

POP SHOPhttps://pop-shop.com

“If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.”

Vocabulary and Terms to KnowArtist: Keith Haring

Art History/Art Movement: Pop Art, Neo-Expressionism, Street Art, Graffiti

Semiotics: study of signs and symbols

Murals: large paintings on walls

Pop Shop: Keith Haring’s store where he sold t-shirts, buttons, and other products to help make others access his art

Art Elements: Line, Shape, Color

Design Principles: Movement, Repetition, Pattern

Social Issues: ideas about society

Free public art, subway drawings

Artist as activist-using art to raise awareness about social issues, foster social justice

Rubric and Criteria for AssignmentUse of Supplies: 25%

WHATEVER YOU GOT! Get creative!

Sketching design in pencil, adding color with (pens, sharpies, markers, colored pencil, etc), in Keith Haring's style.

Surface: anything goes, (paper, cardboard, wood, canvas), construction paper, notebook paper)

Whatever you have to draw and/or paint with

Clear Concept Behind Work 25%:

Work should show a social or political issue important to you and be easy to get

Social issue ideas: reflect on topics you have explored in World Cultures class: politics, equality, diversity, equity, human rights, animal rights, healthcare, LGBTQIA+ rights, climate change, pollution, war, coronavirus, peer pressure, racism, stress, -whatever matters to you!

Rubric and Criteria for AssignmentIntroduction, Research, Preparation 25%

Reading this slideshow, watching videos about Keith Haring, looking at samples, becoming familiar with his style and work

Art Elements/Design Principles 25%:

Must use art elements: line, shape, color.

Must use design principles: movement, repetition, and pattern

Samples of Student WorkCan you guess the social issue?

Visit here for lots more images and inspirations

https://msmoranart.weebly.com/keith-haring-inspired-social-issue-paintings.html

Can you guess the social issue?

Notice how these images still communicate and tell a story, even without using words.

Don’t have paint? That’s OK! Draw with Whatever You Got!If you have markers....

https://www.deepspacesparkle.com/keith-haring-rocks/

Don’t have markers? That’s OK! Draw with Whatever You Got!

If you have colored pencils...

https://msmoranart.weebly.com/keith-haring-inspired-colored-pencil-drawings.html

Don’t Have Markers or colored pencils?That’s OK! Use pencil and pens.

Haring was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988. In 1989, he established the Keith Haring

Foundation, its mandate being to provide funding and imagery to AIDS organizations and children’s programs, and to expand the

audience for Haring’s work through exhibitions, publications and the licensing of

his images. Haring enlisted his imagery during the last years of his life to speak

about his own illness and generate activism and awareness about AIDS.

He died in 1990 of AIDS related complications at the age of 31.

https://www.haring.com/!/about-haring/bio

Keith’s memory and artwork lives on in museums, public spaces, and

murals, all around the world to this day.

“I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern,

has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think

about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination

and encourages people to go further.” -Keith Haring