July 7, 1986: Montreux It is only now that I realize the importance of a biography. I mean I always have realized that I enjoy to read (and have learned many things from) the biographies of artists whom I admire. It is probably my main source of education. In the beginning of my career (what an awful word) I was misled by a teacher who thought the things I was writing to be pretentious and self important. Years later, when I read those things I wrote in 1978, it didnt seem so pretentious for almost everything I wrote about wanting to do, I actually did in the four or five years that followed.
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About Keith Haring
Keith Haring was a 20th-century American artist and social activist. Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Art — Creativity, expression, and the role of art in society