Keith Haring (Pensilvania 1958 - New York 1990)

Keith Allen Haring was an artist and social activist whose work reflects the spirit of the pop generation and
the street culture of New York in the 1980s. Birth, death, love, sex, war are recurring themes in his works.
He is the most important of the graffiti painters of the eighties. From a very young age, Keith Haring began
to draw, inspired by the cartoons he saw on television. He studied art at the Ivy School of Art in Pittsburgh,
where he began making screen prints for printing on T-shirts.
He tried to put things as simply as possible. Haring embraced demotic culture, that is, a combination of
fashion, art and music, breaking barriers between these manifestations to give them a greater extension; This
factor is basic to understanding his commercial success around the world, in various genres, including
murals, sculpture, posters and body painting.

Barking Dog, 1990

Free South Africa, 1985