Keith Haring





 Have you ever seen this painting?  I think all you have seen like it or others like it.  This painting was drawn by Keith Haring.  However I think you don’t know his life and what he did.  

Keith Haring was a successful artist in the 1980s.  He was born in Pennsylvania on May 4,1958.  After that, he moved to New York and enrolled in a prestigious art school.  In 1980, he started to paint on the walls in subways on the way to his part time job.  It was called “subway drawings “.  His drawings were simple and rhythmical, so they gained popularity by people who were taking the subway.  

Keith Haring gradually increased his product.  And he held some drawing exhibitions.  He had close friendships with some artists, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.  But he fell sick.  It was AIDS.  So he did social action programs for preventing  the AIDS.  He drew some drawings for messages about preventing further spread of infection.

He died when he was 31 years old in 1990.  His last drawing was “tuttomondo” on a church’s wall in Italy.  

I just know his name and drawings.  I didn’t  know his life and what he did.  I searched for Keith Haring for posting this blog, and  I got his information.  His symbol drawing is “Baby”.  This drawing has some meanings.  

Keith Haring said that he chose “Baby” for his symbol.  “Baby is the purest and being positive as a human in life, when we are born in the world. Children spend the life of simply and happily.  They don’t mind others colors of skins, and don’t have feeling like complexity, greed and hatred.

I want you to know what he did more.




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