Keith Haring
PainterKnown for: public art and graphic advocacy; the subway chalk drawings
Keith Haring began drawing his chalk figures in the New York City subway system in the early 1980s — a vocabulary of crawling babies, barking dogs, radiant hearts, and dancing figures executed in bold, continuous line — before moving into galleries and large-scale public works worldwide. He founded the Pop Shop in 1986 as a vehicle for making his work accessible at low prices. He died of AIDS-related complications in 1990 at 31, having spent his final years on AIDS activism.
Gear & Materials(1)
Sennelier
Sennelier Oil Pastels were developed in collaboration with Pablo Picasso in 1949, when he asked the Parisian colorist Henri Sennelier to create a stick medium that combined the richness of oil paint with the directness of pastel. The resulting product — a blend of oil, wax, and high-quality pigments — allowed for immediate drawing and blending without drying. Sennelier's shop near the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris has supplied materials to artists in the city since 1887.
“Haring used oil sticks and pastels in his studio practice alongside his better-known marker and spray paint work; Sennelier oil pastels are documented in retrospective accounts of his working materials.”
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