Keith Haring on context
I was wandering around reading about art on the web and found some very interesting thoughts by Keith Haring. It made me remember how he made art PUBLIC, as public as it could be. That was extremely energizing and all I could think about was art that wasn’t framed, or installed, or protected from the viewer, from the public.
Art is a very powerful thing — for the maker and those who experience it.
I kept seeing more and more of these black spaces, and I drew on them whenever I saw one. Because they were so fragile, people left them alone and respected them; they didn’t rub them out or try to mess them up. It gave them this other power. It was this chalk-white fragile thing in the middle of all this power and tension and violence that the subway was. People were completely enthralled.
– Keith Haring (1958 — 1990)
official site:
www.haring.com
film:
The Universe of Keith Haring
by Christina Clausen
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Tags: art, drawing, Keith Haring, very public art