Keith Haring's Influence On Greek Art

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In the 70s and 80s, the New York art world was very different from what it is today. Subway cars were riddled with graffiti inside and out. So art was concerned the city was much more chaotic, open and experimental, and favored the ephemeral creators. Feminism and the gay revolution were part of a mixture of values favoring critical attitudes. All were in favor of art and American and international culture were accessible, democratic, rupturistas. Regardless of what seems to us to be the art of those times (one might argue that the gains were higher in the social sphere in the aesthetic), it certainly was a circumscribed to the values of the moment, who advocated the merger of the historical period revolt and imagination? Keith Haring, the prolific and talented gay artist, who belonged to that period.

Keith haring was born in Pennsylvania on May 4th, 1948. From the very beginning when he was young he started drawing cartoons drawing like the ones he saw on television. He was heavily influenced by his father Allen and popular cartoons of his time like Walt Disney, Charles Schultz, and Dr. Seuss. He studied art at the Ivy School of Art in Pittsburgh, where he started making silkscreen print on …show more content…

Herring said: “I immediately realized that this was the perfect place to draw,” he recalled. “I went above ground to a card shop and bought a box of white chalk, went back down and did a drawing…”1 Furthermore, chalk itself proved an ideal medium for the “continuous line” that was the artist’s objective. Keith used Words like “flow” and “fluidity” reference to his own work. Those who watched him draw were regularly astonished by the speed and accuracy of his line, whether he was drawing on dollar bills, ersatz Greek vases, the body of Grace Jones, or a youthful fan’s skateboard. And like Matisse, he never erased or

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