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With his short, stormy life Keith Haring has made his mark in the truest sense of the phrase. He was born in 1958 in Kutztown, a conservative little town, and died in 1990 in the great metropolis of New York, developing in a very short time into an international star. Like a man obsessed, he drew abstract patterns constructed of recurrent signs and characters. He wanted to get out into the world and to be recognised in “the scene“. For this reason, his career began with him climbing into New York subway-shafts and painting abstract figures on the empty advertisement signs, figures which are copulating, playing, fleeing or pursuing each other. A short while later he found himself receiving overtures from within the field of international art. Keith became the catalyst and a leading light within the international graffiti movement. This artist, who died of AIDS at the age of 31, painted as if he were on a continual high. Harry Geldzahler, the head of New York’s civic art department, said of Keith: “When I found him in his studio, I saw a genius.“
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