Born May 4th, 1958 in Reading Pennsylvania. He moved to New York City in 1978 and began using the city as his canvas, doing drawings in subway stations. His art was eventually seen everywhere from public murals and nightclubs to Galleries and museums around the world. Is art style is pop art and contemporary. www.theartstory.org says this about this art style, Haring's deceptively simple imagery and text provided poignant and cutting cultural commentary on issues including AIDS, drug addiction, illicit love, and apartheid. As both an artist and an activist, He established that depicting serious issues could be fun or at least lively when communicated through highly cartoony images and fresh and vivid choices of colors. Haring’s commitment to clean lines & images gave new life to figuration in painting, in contrast to the more abstract and conceptual approaches of the previous generations, and the more expressionistic gestural painting of his contemporaries.
Here are my recreations of some of his pieces
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