While in Pittsburgh, Haring continued to study and work on his own and in had a solo exhibition of his work at the Pittsburgh Arts and Crafts Center. In New York, Haring found a thriving alternative art community that was developing outside the gallery and museum system, in the downtown streets, the subways and spaces in clubs and former dance halls. Here he became friends with fellow artists Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as the musicians, performance artists and graffiti writers that comprised the burgeoning art community.
Haring was swept up in the energy and spirit of this scene and began to organize and participate in exhibitions and performances at Club 57 and other alternative venues. With these influences Haring was able to push his own youthful impulses toward a singular kind of graphic expression based on the primacy of the line. As a student at SVA, Haring experimented with performance, video, installation and collage, while always maintaining a strong commitment to drawing.
In , Haring found a highly effective medium that allowed him to communicate with the wider audience he desired, when he noticed the unused advertising panels covered with matte black paper in a subway station. He began to create drawings in white chalk upon these blank paper panels throughout the subway system. This seamless flow of images became familiar to New York commuters, who often would stop to engage the artist when they encountered him at work.
Between and , Haring achieved international recognition and participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Keith Urban is a Grammy-award winning country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was a celebrity judge of 'American Idol' and is married to actress Nicole Kidman. Country music sensation Toby Keith is best known for his rousing anthems to the U.
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His relationship with Andy Warhol became close, they often traded art with one another and Warhol was the subject of many of his paintings. It was a sad and unintended outcome for a man who wanted his work to be widely available to the public at affordable prices, so he opened up The Pop Shop on Lafayette Street in Some saw this as being a sell-out and brazenly commercial.
Haring didn't see it that way. If anything, it was his way of putting two fingers up to what he viewed as 'the elitist establishment. As he said, "my work was starting to become more expensive and more popular within the art market.
Those prices meant that only people who could afford big art prices could have access to the work. Growing Plate 1 , , Screenprint, x 76 cm. By opening up the art world and turning it on its head, by taking art back and sharing it with those he was speaking up for, Haring had his most lasting effect.
For his has been a vivid, populist approach that has been - and still is - emulated by the likes of Banksy Invader and others. What would he make of the frenzy with which collectors and investors battle for his work in the great auction houses, paying in the millions for his iconic pieces?
A mixture, perhaps, of annoyance and amusement. Haring would no doubt be delighted by the fact that there is public work of his in Antwerp, Berlin, San Francisco, Paris and Melbourne.
That some of it features in hospitals, schools and an LGBT community centre. That his mural in Pisa, on the side of the Sant'Antonio Church, still exists, as too does the one at the Carmine public swimming pool in Greenwich Village. We the Youth, Philadelphia Mural, And that the Keith Haring Foundation he established in continues to thrive, enriching the lives of underprivileged children and supporting hundreds of Aids-related organisations.
His desire and aim for his work, he once explained, was "a more holistic and basic idea of wanting to incorporate [art] into every part of life, less as an egotistical exercise and more natural somehow… taking it off the pedestal. I'm giving it back to the people, I guess".
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