Kieth Haring Subway Art
In the early 80s Keith Haring created hundreds of drawings in the New York Subway system.
In the 1960s and the 1970s, the New York subway system, and the city's doorways and blank walls, became internationally famous as the breeding ground and blackboard for the most fertile and pervasive crop of graffiti artists It is, perhaps, no accident that in both instances stress and danger - combat conditions and a certain camaraderie prevailed
The graffiti artist, or "writers� as the prefer to be called, graduate at any age between eleven and sixteen , from the schools and sidewalks to that olympic arena public transportation. Enormous media attention has been focused on them.
There has been, how ever,no unanimity of opinion on their value or on what their presence indicates about our society. What to one observer seems a healthy artistic outlet for rage, frustration, and the opportunity to identity in a culture which only "stars" are admired, is to another the unsightly defacement of public property - a Bronx cheer at government and authority.
Keith Haring's work appeals to us on several levels. First, of course, is the goofy cheerfulness that strikes immediately.
Keith Haring has developed his own language, which speaks to us with immediacy.
In much the same way as Chinese or Egyptian languages are written pictographically, Keith Haring's world is made up of symbols that speak urgently to us, both alone and in interchangeable configurations. And as the pictographs or hieroglyphs communicate visually, soundlessly, so too are Haring's symbols swathed in silence. An eerie quietude surrounds all his work, heightening and animating the dramas they depict.
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babu
babu
bust
Cap crw
chase
gia
Haze
ion
ion
jaz
jaz
keen