Keith Haring: Personal Spiritual Imagery – Revd Jonathan Evens
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Published on: April 13, 2021
Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life, having become known initially for art that proliferated in the New York subway system during the early 1980s. A key belief was that “Art is for everybody.” He created a truly public art from chalk drawings in the subways to the establishment of his Pop Shop, where his artwork could be obtained at an affordable price. By expressing universal concepts – birth, death, love, sex, and war – through a directness of line and message, he gained an audience that was broad and secured the staying power of his imagery.
Simon Doonan, Creative Director for Barneys New York, tells Haring’s inspirational story in a new pocket-sized biography that is part of the Lives of Artists series published by Lawrence King. Doonan describes Haring as a revolutionary and renegade, an artist for the people, creating an instantly recognisable repertoire of symbols – barking dogs, spaceships, crawling babies, clambering faceless people – which became synonymous with the volatile culture of the 1980s. Like a careening, preening pinball, Haring playfully slammed into all aspects of that decade – hip-hop, new-wave, graffiti, funk, art, style, gay culture – and brought them together.
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