Keith Haring
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Flowers (3), 1990Keith HaringView more details
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Untitled , 1982Keith HaringView more details
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Untitled, 1983Keith HaringView more details
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Pop Shop VI (2), 1989Keith HaringView more details
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Pop Shop II, 1988Keith HaringView more details
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The KingKeith HaringView more details
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Untitled, 1987Keith HaringView more details
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Untitled (Blueprint), 1990Keith HaringView more details
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Paris Review, 1989Keith HaringView more details
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Pop Shop V, 1989Keith HaringView more details
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Medusa Head, 1986Keith HaringView more details
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Pop Shop VI (4), 1989Keith HaringView more details
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Pop Shop VI (3), 1989Keith HaringView more details
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Pop Shop I (C), 1987Keith HaringView more details
"I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it." - Keith Haring (2010). Keith Haring Journals
Keith Haring was an American artist and social activist whose work was a response to New York City's street culture of the 1980s. His work explores the themes of birth, death, sex and war; which were very fitting for the period in which he lived and worked.
Haring was openly gay at a time when most of the LGBT community kept their sexuality behind closed doors. This had a massive impact on his work, and a large part of Haring's appeal and influence as an artist, was based around how his art raised awareness of social issues such as AIDS. Having been diagnosed with AIDS himself in 1988, he established the Keith Haring Foundation just one year later, using his work to raise money for AIDS research and AIDS awareness. Organization's such as Red Hot still use Haring's work to achieve and continue this legacy. Haring himself died of AIDS in 1990 at age 32.
Although his career was brief, Haring had a huge intense impact on the art world and those around him; running in a creative social circle that had him working alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.
Through his public murals, subway drawings, prints, and paintings, Haring created a range of images that have become internationally recognized and heavily appropriated across a bevy of genres and industries. Haring continues to inspire the work of artist's to this day; Banksy being one.
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Art + Soul: International Art and Sculpture Exhibition
Castlemartyr Resort, Co Cork 28 May - 18 Jun 2023Art + Soul showcase over 250 artworks by some of the biggest names in international and Irish art, including Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon and Banksy. Included...Read more -
Pop Art Pioneers
Warhol | Lichtenstein | Haring | Robert Indiana. 25 Feb - 18 Mar 2023Gormleys is proud to present "Pop Art Pioneers” an exhibition by four of America's most celebrated pop artists- Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring and Robert Indiana.Read more