Keith Haring was a famous artist in Pop Art and Graffiti Art. His works were deemed as quite controversial as it touched on subjects that were seen as a taboo at the time, such as sex. Toward the end of the 1980s, Keith Haring created this painting to face the absurd stereotypes surrounding the AIDS illness. The main spark of this movement is that many of his friends were dying of AIDS. He is strongly committed to fighting this disease and put his notoriety on the line for this cause. He also admitted that he had AIDS. This painting was created by Keith Haring to encourage people to learn more about AIDS illness and to enforce a greater amount of awareness. The Keith Haring Foundation was created and was responsible for helping children and supporting organizations fighting against AIDS. On February 16, 1990, at the age of 31, he died
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At the bottom of the art next to the word, death is a pink triangle. “The pink triangle, which traces back to the sign used by the Nazis to identify homosexuals and that – because of this reference to a common historical victimization – seemed suitable to increase consciousness as well as responsibility for a collective group affiliation during the 1970s”(The Nomos of Images). He makes a repetition of simple forms as a symbolic universal language and emphasizes them with a black line to express intensity. There are curved lines, figures with bent arms and hands, bright X’s, and bold letters which give a sense of movement and immediately grabs the viewers' attention. The whole composition gives an energized ambiance. The selection of cartoon-like figures with bold colors and lines as seen in pop art and graffiti art, related to the average person and in turn grabbed everyone's attention. It is mainly an ephemeral art seen by and for a very large audience. It conveys messages of society and is understandable by all quickly. If a different medium were used, the essence of the message would not be
At the bottom of the art next to the word, death is a pink triangle. “The pink triangle, which traces back to the sign used by the Nazis to identify homosexuals and that – because of this reference to a common historical victimization – seemed suitable to increase consciousness as well as responsibility for a collective group affiliation during the 1970s”(The Nomos of Images). He makes a repetition of simple forms as a symbolic universal language and emphasizes them with a black line to express intensity. There are curved lines, figures with bent arms and hands, bright X’s, and bold letters which give a sense of movement and immediately grabs the viewers' attention. The whole composition gives an energized ambiance. The selection of cartoon-like figures with bold colors and lines as seen in pop art and graffiti art, related to the average person and in turn grabbed everyone's attention. It is mainly an ephemeral art seen by and for a very large audience. It conveys messages of society and is understandable by all quickly. If a different medium were used, the essence of the message would not be