He started exhibiting his work across cities in America and further afield. The 1980s were Haring’s successful decade. Soon hundreds of his “subway drawings”, realized in chalk against the black surfaces of the unused advertising spaces paper, started to populate the subway system on a daily basis and became familiar to the commuters. The drawings would eventually be covered with new ads, in one of the most legendary and ephemeral art projects, one that would gain Haring him significant attention in the art world and beyond. Convinced of the public nature of art as something for everyone to enjoy – not simply those attending galleries and museums – he found his laboratory in the subway and his audience in the New York commuters, and his canvas in the empty subway advertising spaces covered with black paper. This led Haring to begin work on his own style. He met musicians and graffiti writers and fellow artists that would deeply influence his work, from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf to Andy Warhol and Christo. It was here that he found got involved with local communities of artists who enjoyed creating art outside of conventional practices, participating in exhibitions in iconic underground venues such as Club 57. Later, he moved to New York and joined the School of Visual Arts (SVA). In 1978, he held his first solo exhibition of work at the Pittsburgh Arts and Crafts Center. Yet, the budding artist didn’t want to become a commercial graphic artist, so decided to drop out and continued to develop his own artistic skills in Pittsburgh.
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He attended a local high school and after graduating he went to the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh. He began by learning basic drawing skills from his father and forms of popular culture – most notably Dr. “What’s great is that most of the negative reaction is starting a dialog about urbanization and the projects that are being approved through the city both from a design standpoint and also a size stand point.Born in Pennsylvania in 1958, Keith Haring’s talent for art shone through at a young age. “We’ve also had some negative reaction as well which was expected,” said M-Rad’s Brand and Marketing Director Eric Stauble. M-Rad Architecture, the Culver City-based firm that’s designing the forthcoming apartment complex and who commissioned the Mid City mural, told Curbed that the reaction to the installation has mostly been positive. “As the artist, I start and the viewer finishes the work.” “With this project I’m encouraging the viewer to formulate their own meaning behind the work,” says The Most Famous Artist.
Until then, they’re a very bright pink that tips its palette to Christo’s large-scale public color works, Louise Nevelson’s monumental sculptures, the Dada art movement and Julian Schnabel’s pink building in the West Village. The ephemeral and extremely Instagram-friendly art project was done in anticipation of their demolition, with the homes set to make way for a 45-unit apartment complex. Three Mid City houses have been painted hot pink by a local artist who goes by the name, The Most Famous Artist.
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