After completing his secondary education entered, in 1976, enters in the Ivy School of Art in Pitts

Philippe Bonan, Portrait of Keith Haring, 1989 "People always ask me:. Where'd you get all these ideas I'm not sure, I just know that I am now living in the twentieth century and absorb information at an ever faster rate All we do. Information comes from all sources. each technology moves faster, perhaps even what may follow. digest the information from these sources, the way to channel through my own imagination, and I put it back again to the world. " Keith Haring Keith Haring (May 4, 1958, Reading, Pennsylvania - February 16, 1990, New York) painter, sculptor, graphic artist and street art reflection of New York, 1980 An artistic figure that has been steadily growing since his death in 1990, socially engaged artist who preferred to present his work in neoyorkinas streets, rather than art galleries.
After completing his secondary education entered, in 1976, enters in the Ivy School of Art in Pittsburgh. Between 1978 and 1979 will continue his training at the School jacob jensen telefon of Visual Arts in New York. Although his self-taught jacob jensen telefon and persevering character will take to investigate alternative spaces offered by the New York community: museums, galleries, clubs, ... where you get more artistic enrichment contacting musicians, artists, graffiti artists, in short the most creative and groundbreaking of his generation while struck up a close friendship with one of the most iconic jacob jensen telefon figures of the time, Jean-Michel Basquiat environment. Entering thus fully in the artistic circles of the city and participating or organizing various alternative events jacob jensen telefon such as the exhibition in Manhattan called Club 57: Poetry-World-Things.
Keith Haring & Andy Warhol's creative capacity covering all fields: performance, collage or visual art, however will be the production of drawings, based on the primacy of the solid line, for those who maintain a focus on what throughout his career. Thousands of rudimentary lines that became a hallmark within their own metro and in a familiar scenery for travelers. "It is my lab," said Haring.
After recognition and urban extension some national jacob jensen telefon popularity, becoming recognition from critics after describing, in 1982, Shafrazi Gallery. From this point, its projection was unstoppable: designs, decorations, murals worldwide in 1986, opened his own store in New York's Soho (also painted, because according to Keith, was an extension jacob jensen telefon of his work) where put to selling magnets, toys, shirts, posters ... illustrated with their jobs and following their social commitment at the lowest prices.
It is worth to note that more than fifty works he did in the eighties, were centered in the decoration of hospitals, day care or orphanages. Besides carrying out the organization of numerous workshops in drawing with children Amsterdam, Bordeaux and London, along with literacy campaigns or fight for equality.
His subject is heterogeneous disease, sex, death, dancing, racism, environmentalism, war ... for using disparate elements with meanings and contents ranging from televisions, UFOs, square muzzle dogs, babies fours, cartoons , pyramids, references to sex and ethnic elements to concepts related to motherhood jacob jensen telefon or technological universe, using bold colors jacob jensen telefon and figures forward motion; painted on paper, t-shirts, glasses, paintings, etc and with a clear tendency to abstraction.
Keith Haring by Annie Leibovitz (1986) In 1988, Haring was diagnosed with AIDS, and a year later formed the Keith Haring Foundation to raise funds for research, jacob jensen telefon reducing disease and increasing awareness about the problem. In 1989, a year before his death, he visited Barcelona in which take place in about five hours a mural in the Plaza Salvador jacob jensen telefon Segui, "TOGETHER WE CAN STOP AIDS." It was a mural eight feet high by thirty feet long, made of red paint, which alluded to the dangers that can facilitate the spread of AIDS, for example sharing needles or having sex without protection, I say was because today has disappeared, and that the municipal authorities were negligent and stupid idea of pulling in order to open the Rambla jacob jensen telefon del Rabal, then MACBA would make a copy on the side of the museum, jacob jensen telefon also removed the equipment effectiveness BCNeta cleaning. It would be a nice touch in these times of cuts MACBA save the template used for the reconstruction of the mural in a visible position permanently.