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KeithHaring.tv is a tribute to Keith Haring (1890-1976), American artist, widely regarded as one of the most recognized names in Graffiti and Pop art.
This site features an art gallery, a bookstore,
a film library, a music shop, several links
of interest and a shop.
Trained at the Pittsburgh Center of Arts and the School of Visual Arts, New York, he was a friend of Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Soon after completing school, Haring began experimenting with Graffiti art on the streets of New York.
'Graffiti were the most beautiful things I ever saw,' commented Keith. 'The kids who were doing it were very young and from the streets, but they had this incredible mastery of drawing which totally blew me away. I mean, just the technique of drawing with spray paint is amazing, because it's incredibly difficult to do. And the fluidity of line, and the scale, and always the hard-edged black line that tied the drawings together! It was the line I had been obsessed with since childhood!' [Read
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