Week 1 - Keith Haring's Protest Art Case Study.

This essay presents a case study on Keith Haring's protest art. To begin with, Keith Haring is an artist who brought the element of popular culture and non-art elements arts space of museums and galleries to publicize.

The story of Keith Haring.

Many of his artworks were graffiti and murals. He uses bright and artificial color, and to grab the audience's attention and get them to enjoy and to engage with the important concerns. It was easy to know is "Keith Haring" artworks. His artworks can bring out powerful messages to the audience and helped out for those going through it. He used his platform to discuss issues that he thought were important. I found out some interesting artwork that I like is "Crack is Wrack" it is a very important message that I can apply to my next project.

Street Art Legends: Best of Keith Haring Art

"CRACK IS WHACK" (1986) Mural @ Keith Haring Foundation

There are plenty of interesting points that can be found in the article which I discovered can be useful for my future studies. His drawings about life, love, sex, and death became popular conservation. As mentioned in the article, the artist told it: "I was always totally amazed that the people I would meet while I was doing them were concerned with what they meant. The first thing anyone asked me, no matter how old, no matter who they were, was what does it mean?" The artist said because of the immediate and continuing feedbacks from these encounters helped him guide his stylistic choices. He also produced a lot of public drawings, he develops his style of cartoon-like characters and symbols while also developing name recognition.

Keith Haring - Berlin Wall Mural

Keith Haring handing out No Nuke Posters at a No Nuke Rally, Central Park, NYC 12 June 1982 @ Joseph Szkodzinski 2018, www.thefoundingimage.com @ Keith Haring Foundation

Haring's had strong opinions about the art world, his following quote shown from his journal: "Art in 1978 has seen numerous attempts at classifying or labeling and then exploiting an idea until the idea itself is lost in the process." Later in the same journal entry, he stated the idealist notion that "Art is life and life is art". The key point he mentioned in this story art revolves around the artists/designers. It provides an overview of how designers have seen numerous attempts at classifying and then exploiting an idea until the idea itself is lost in the process. In conclusion, I can see that some key points in this art story are quite interesting, and reminded me of how important in developing ideas in every single piece of projects.

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References:

Keith Haring – Berlin Wall Mural. (2020). Retrieved 23 April 2020, from https://www.widewalls.ch/street-art-legends-best-of-keith-haring-art/keith-haring-berlin-wall-mural/

Haring, K. (2020). Keith Haring Paintings, Bio, Ideas. Retrieved 23 April 2020, from https://www.theartstory.org/artist/haring-keith/#nav

The story of Keith Haring, as told through his iconic art work. (2020). Retrieved 23 April 2020, from https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/44781/1/keith-haring-tate-liverpool-new-york-art-scene-artist-radiant-baby