Page loaded successfully. Showing keywords for Keith Haring.
Artist Keywords
Keywords page for Keith Haring ((1958 - 1990)), known for Pop-modern graffiti, figure and genre painting. Showing associated keywords and tags.
Keith Haring KEYWORDS
1958 Kutztown, Pennsylvania - 1990 New York City. Known for: Pop-modern graffiti, figure and genre painting.
Born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Keith Haring became known for graffiti art and cartoon art and became a leading figure in the New York contemporary art world of the second half of the 20th century.... Read full biography
Born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Keith Haring became known for graffiti art and cartoon art and became a leading figure in the New York contemporary art world of the second half of the 20th century. He was raised in Kutztown and then after high school, moved to Pittsburgh and began to study... Read full biography
Born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Keith Haring became known for graffiti art and cartoon art and became a leading figure in the New York contemporary art world of the second half of the 20th century. He was raised in Kutztown and then after high school, moved to Pittsburgh and began to study commercial art. In 1978, he moved to New York City and studied at the School of Visual Arts where he and artist Kenny Scharf became companions. Haring began to experiment with graffiti, painting first on... Read full biography
Born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Keith Haring became known for graffiti art and cartoon art and became a leading figure in the New York contemporary art world of the second half of the 20th century. He was raised in Kutztown and then after high school, moved to Pittsburgh and began to study commercial art. In 1978, he moved to New York City and studied at the School of Visual Arts where he and artist Kenny Scharf became companions. Haring began to experiment with graffiti, painting first on subway walls. He became known for his complex, pandemonic, jigsaw -puzzle like paintings, intended to be iconography of American life. Usually he would begin by making the border around the work and then would go inside the space. He said "the whole... Read full biography
Born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Keith Haring became known for graffiti art and cartoon art and became a leading figure in the New York contemporary art world of the second half of the 20th century. He was raised in Kutztown and then after high school, moved to Pittsburgh and began to study commercial art. In 1978, he moved to New York City and studied at the School of Visual Arts where he and artist Kenny Scharf became companions. Haring began to experiment with graffiti, painting first on subway walls. He became known for his complex, pandemonic, jigsaw -puzzle like paintings, intended to be iconography of American life. Usually he would begin by making the border around the work and then would go inside the space. He said "the whole painting is the cartoon of a cartoon.". In 1982, he had his first exhibition, which was held at t... Read full biography
Keith Haring - Artist Info
About Keith Haring: Keywords
Keywords (60)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Graffiti Street Art Tagger, Urban Art
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Aluminum/Aluminium
- •Art Pottery
- •Assemblage
- •Bronze
- •Cardboard
- •Ceramic Art, Porcelain, Design and/or Decoration
- •Ceramics
- •Chalk
- •Charcoal
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Enamel Paint
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Fiberglass
- •Found Objects, Junk, Recycles
- •Gold
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Magic Marker, Sharpie, Felt-Tip Pen
- •Marble
- •Metal, Metalwork, Metal Plates, Metal Point
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Neon Light, Projected Light, Illumination
- •Oil Paint
- •Painting on Glass, Glass Design, Studio Glass Art
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Plaster
- •Plastics
- •Steel, Stainless Steel
- •Tempera
- •Terracotta, Terra Cotta
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Cartoon Drawing, Cartoon Figures
- •Pop Art, Popular Culture
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Caricatures
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Hand-Crafted Objects
- •Humor, Whimsy
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Art School
- •School of Visual Arts, New York, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Axelrod Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- •Richard Weisman Collection
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
- •Street Artist
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York