He studied commercial art from 1976 to 1978 at Pittsburgh's Ivy School of Professional Art, but eventually lost interest, inspired to focus on his own art after reading The Art Spirit (1923) by Robert Henri. He graduated from Kutztown Area High School in 1976. He later hitchhiked across the country, selling T-shirts he made featuring the Grateful Dead and anti- Nixon designs. In his early teenage years, he was involved with the Jesus Movement. Haring's family attended the United Church of Christ. Seuss, Charles Schulz, and the Looney Tunes characters in The Bugs Bunny Show. His early influences included Walt Disney cartoons, Dr. He became interested in art at a very young age, spending time with his father producing creative drawings. He had three younger sisters, Kay, Karen and Kristen. He was raised in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, by his mother, Joan Haring, and father, Allen Haring, an engineer and amateur cartoonist. Haring was born at Community General Hospital in Reading, Pennsylvania, on May 4, 1958.
His later work often conveyed political and societal themes- anti- crack, anti- apartheid, safe sex, homosexuality and AIDS-through his own iconography. In 1986, he opened the Pop Shop as an extension of his work. He produced more than 50 public artworks between 19, many of them created voluntarily for hospitals, day care centers and schools. After gaining public recognition, he created colorful larger scale murals, many commissioned. Haring's popularity grew from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways-chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and other stylized images on blank black advertising spaces. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997. In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows such as documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Keith Allen Haring (– February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater.
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