BIG DIGITS

Keith Haring is one of the greatest artists of the Pop Art culture. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on May 4tj, 1958. He was interested in art from an early age. He went to the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then at the School of Visual Arts in New-York City just after moving in the big apple.

People first talked about Keith Haring when he achieved his first chalk drawing in the subways of New-York. That how people realized that he had very strong messages throughout his drawings with bold lines and vivid colors.

His success became even more evident when he met Andy Warhol, who was the theme of several of his pieces.

He also travelled to Australia and painted wall mural in Melbourne and Sydney and got a commission of 1,000 AU$ from the National Gallery of Victoria and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. He also painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix and Berlin on the Berlin wall.

He devoted much of his time to public works which often carried social messages. He produced more than 50 public artworks in dozens of cities around the world, and many of these were created for charities, hospitals, children’s day care centers and orphanages.

But in 1988, Haring was diagnosed with AIDS, and the following year, he established the Keith Haring Foundation that helped AIDS organization and children’s programs. He died of complications due to his sickness at the age of 31 on February 16th, 1990. Haring has had a very brief career but he touched a lot of people with his art, and he featured over 100 exhibitions. He also worked with artists and performers as Madonna, Grace Jones, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol. He was able to attract a wide audience and has become a universally recognized visual language of the 20th century by expressing universal concepts like birth, death, love, sex and war.

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