Keith Haring

Quick Facts

Full Name	Keith Haring
Occupation	Pop Artist
Date Of Birth	May 4, 1958(1958-05-04)
Age	66
Date Of Death	February 16, 1990, New York, NY
Birthplace	Reading
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Taurus

Keith Haring Biography

Keith Haring is one of the most popular and richest Pop Artist who was born on May 4, 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. Internationally acclaimed pop and graffiti artist best known for his “Tuttomondo” mural and his “Boxer” sculpture. He toyed with such concepts as birth, death, war, and sexuality in his work and often invoked political imagery.

He collaborated with Andy Warhol, another renowned pop artist of the time.

Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s. Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism. He achieved this by using sexual images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness.

In his early teenage years, Haring was involved with the Jesus Movement. Later, he hitchhiked across the country, while selling T-shirts that he made featuring the Grateful Dead and anti-Nixon shirts. He studied commercial art from 1976 to 1978 at Pittsburgh’s Ivy School of Professional Art, but eventually lost interest. He was inspired to focus on his own art after reading The Art Spirit (1923) by Robert Henri. This influenced his decision to leave the Ivy School after two semesters.

His father, Allen Haring, worked as a cartoonist. His life was commemorated by Madonna during her first New York performance of the Blond Ambition World Tour.

Keith Haring Net Worth

Keith Haring is one of the richest Pop Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Keith Haring 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He dropped out of Pittsburgh’s Ivy School of Professional Art and moved to New York, where he began sketching chalk figures of dogs in subway stations.

He was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 and died two years later.

Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on May 4, 1958. He was raised in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, by his mother, Joan Haring, and father, Allen Haring, an engineer and amateur cartoonist. Keith attended Kutztown Area High School and graduated in 1976. His family attended the United Church of God. He had three younger sisters, Kay, Karen, and Kristen. He became interested in art at a very young age, spending time with his father producing creative drawings. His early influences included Walt Disney cartoons, Dr. Seuss, Charles Schulz, and the Looney Tunes characters in The Bugs Bunny Show.

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Throughout the 1980s, Haring made art for a variety of sources, nightclubs and discotheques, such as the Palladium in Manhattan, MTV set decorations, a backdrop for the Philadelphia stage of the iconic 1985 Live Aid concerts for world hunger, walls on the Lower East Side, and props for various dance works. His works also included murals for the CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, the Children’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., and the Necker Children’s Hospital in Paris.

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Keith Ranked on the list of most popular Pop Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Keith Haring celebrates birthday on May 4 of every year.

Haring first received public attention with his graffiti art in subways where he created white chalk drawings on a black, unused advertisement backboard in the stations. He considered the subways to be his “laboratory”, a place where he could experiment and create his artwork and saw the black advertisement paper as a free space and “the perfect place to draw”. Starting in 1980, he organized exhibitions at Club 57, a gallery that hosted performances and exhibitions from emerging artists, which were filmed by the photographer Tseng Kwong Chi. Around this time, “The Radiant Baby”, a crawling infant with emitting rays of light, became his most recognized symbol. He used it as his tag to sign his work while a subway artist. His images were primarily composed of solid, bold lines with vibrant colors.

What was Keith Harings famous phrase?

1. “ Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

What happened to Keith Haring?

Haring eventually died from AIDS-related complications in 1990 at the age of 31. He seemingly carried out his desire to make art accessible to millions of people right to the very end.

Why is Keith Haring important?

Keith Haring was a popular artist and activist who was part of the legendary New York art scene during the 1980s. While he is known for his colourful works and his iconic motifs such as the radiant baby and the barking dog, much of his work responded to contemporary social and political events.

What does Keith Haring's art mean?

Haring’s dancing figures clearly evoke fun, joy, energy and community, and can also be considered a reflection of the artist’s love of hip hop , which was emerging in New York City around the same time his art rose to prominence. He would often listen to rap while painting, and was inspired by its movement and energy.

What is a famous quote from Van Gogh?

“ It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high.