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Haring – Art in Transit | Keith Haring

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I have been drawing since I was four years old. I learned to draw from my father, who would entertain me by inventing cartoon animals. Although he never pursued an artistic career, he encouraged me to continue drawing throughout my school years. Drawing became a way of commanding respect and communicatiing with people. When I was eighteen, my work, which had been primarily cartoon-oriented, became increasingly abstract and concerned with spontaneous action. I became interested in Eastern Calligraphy and the art of the Gesture. When I moved to New York City at the age of twenty, I started to experiment with drawing on paper that was so large that I had to stand inside the drawing. Although my work was still “Abstract” at this time, I became aware of the vast differences in people’s responses to the work. Different people saw different things in the drawings. I remember most clearly an afternoon of drawing ina studio that large doors that opened onto Twenty-second Street. All kinds of pe

Haring – Art in Transit | Keith Haring --> ← Funny How Things Turn Out Haring All-Over → Haring – Art in Transit by Keith Haring | Art in Transit I have been drawing since I was four years old. I learned to draw from my father, who would entertain me by inventing cartoon animals. Although he never pursued an artistic career, he encouraged me to continue drawing throughout my school years. Drawing became a way of commanding respect and communicatiing with people. When I was eighteen, my work, which had been primarily cartoon-oriented, became increasingly abstract and conce

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