Keith Haring Subway
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| Keith Haring , 1885 |
Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s.
Haring's work grew to popularity from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways—chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and other stylized images on blank black advertising-space backgrounds. After public recognition he created larger scale works, such as colorful murals, many of them commissioned. The image he evokes has "become a widely recognized visual language". His later work often addressed political and societal themes through his own iconography of HIV messages.
Much of Haring's work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism. He achieved this by using sexual images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness.
Haring's work grew to popularity from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways—chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and other stylized images on blank black advertising-space backgrounds. After public recognition he created larger scale works, such as colorful murals, many of them commissioned. The image he evokes has "become a widely recognized visual language". His later work often addressed political and societal themes through his own iconography of HIV messages.
Much of Haring's work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism. He achieved this by using sexual images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness.
He used the public to communicate his messages, using inspiration from Graffiti and wanted people to let people physically touch his work of arts. The messages of his artwork comes from his own experiences and his own activism to create change within the public.
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