Keith Haring was an American neo-pop artist, active in the 1980s. Keith's works are very different from traditional paintings. They are simple and direct, often repeating several patterns, and the content is often cartoon-like. Stick figures, babies, dogs, flying saucers, televisions and graphics frequently appear in his paintings. The colors in the painting were initially three primary colors, but they were still the basic colors, although they were added later.
Haring was a street graffiti painter at first. Telephone poles, concrete poles, billboards, and signboards all became his canvases, and brushes ranged from pencils to spray paint cans and brushes, and they came from everywhere. His sculptures are also varied, ranging from paper paste to fiberglass. In addition, he also designed a large number of posters. Performing arts is also his field.
Keith moved to New York City at the age of 19 and studied at the New York School of Visual Arts. His work has a strong Pop Art style; his earliest works were created around 1980, when he was in a New York subway station, looking for black posters to be posted, and used white chalk to scribble, mostly thick outlines, monochrome, hollow abstract figures, animals and other patterns. His works are often like some kind of complex pattern, with various patterns filling the entire composition.
In a short period of time, Keith Haring's works spread to the New York art world. In 1983, when Columbia TV interviewed him about graffiti in a subway station and the scene of his arrest, he became famous overnight. Under the exhibition and creation, he entered the museum as a graffiti painter, and the price of his works has risen. According to the US Newsweek report, in 1984, a painting by Keith Haring, "Dog in a Crocodile Mask," could be sold for as much as $20,000.
