Keith Haring About Keith Haring

Keith Haring

About Keith Haring

• Keith Haring was a graffiti artist.

• He started his artistic career drawing cartoon like figures on the walls of the New York subways

• In the subways when a poster space wasn’t being used it was painted black.

• Keith Haring decided that this was too boring so drew on these black spaces with white chalk

Subway Art

• We’ll watch a short movie about Keith Haring and his drawing in the subway

Graffiti Art

• Subways were not the only place that Keith Haring would draw on

• As far as he was concerned cement walls, sidewalks, telephone posts, even dumpsters were all fair game for drawing on.

The word on the street…

• Soon almost everyone in New York had seen Keith Haring’s public art work and some offered him a show in an art gallery.

In living color

• Keith Haring always drew dynamic figures.

• Dynamic means that the people look like they are in motion.

Dynamic Poses

More Dynamic Figures

Dancing

• Keith Haring made art in the 1980s when break-dancing was popular.

• Many of his works of art are of people break-dancing.

• We are going to make our own Keith Haring Dancers for our next project

The rules of Keith’s art

• Keith cartoon like people were always

• only one solid color

• outlined in black

• had a different color background

• Had action-lines surrounding them to imply movement

• didn’t have any details like fingers, toes or facial features.

Color mixing

• Red + Blue = Violet

• Red + Yellow = Orange

• Blue + Yellow = Green

Here are the steps

• Mrs. Rowe will divide you into pairs.

• Each person will pick out a primary color

• Red
• Yellow
• Blue

• Each pair will get a very very large piece of paper.

• One person will be the dancer and one will be the tracer.

• The dancers must lay down in a neat and interesting frozen dance move.
• The tracer will trace the dancer in the primary color that the dancer picked out.
• Then trade so that the dancer is now the tracer and the tracer is now the dancer

Next step

• 5. Raise your hand when both you and your partner have been traced Mrs. Rowe will check your work

Next step

• Put a X in your color where the two bodies do not overlap

• Put a X in the secondary color that your two colors make everywhere the two bodies do overlap

Next Step

• Paint the primary colors spaces

• Then paint in the secondary color space

Next Step

• Cut out the overlapping figures

• Paste them the background

• The background color should be third primary color

• Cut out action lines out of the remaining secondary colors

Works Cited

• http://www.haringkids.com/