Keith Haring

Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s. 

Haring's work grew to iconic popularity from his exuberant spontaneous drawings in New York City subways – chalk outlines on blank black advertising-space backgrounds – depicting radiant babies, flying saucers, and deified dogs.


After public recognition he created larger scale works such as colorful murals, many of them commissioned.


 His imagery has become a widely recognized visual language.


His later work often addressed political and societal themes – especially homosexuality and AIDS – through his own unique iconography.