Untitled By Keith Haring

Discover the life of Keith Haring and his piece named Untitled that was created in 1982 and is now in the Museum of Modern Art.
As you look around the Museum of Modern Art where the piece named Untitled is placed you’ll see beige colored walls until you turn a small corner and see a display made out of what looks to be a fish tank filled half full with three basketballs floating in the water. Behind the Three Ball 50/50 Tank centerpiece you’ll find a whole wall covered in a black and white landscape that has no particular pattern. It looks like someone doodled on paper and didn’t stop till the whole page was filled; but this isn’t a page, it’s a wall. Since this art piece takes up space by being placed on a wall there is not a specific way …show more content…
It also reminds me of graffiti, but graffiti normally has much more color and brighter color to draw attention to the piece. This artwork makes me think of graffiti because of the different creature characters, shapes and lines that seem to be clustered together where there is not much white space left behind in the background. My eyes are drawn to the cross in the center and then to the old fashioned TV just above the cross. I feel that Haring made certain things like the cross and the TV stick out to draw attention to them as his viewers looked across his drawing. Untitled was created in 1982 when Haring first started his career with graffiti drawings that were made in streets, sidewalks and subways or New York City. In each of his graffiti pieces he combined abstract patterns with the cartoonish creatures that vary throughout the strict pattern. The point of my essay was to explain the experience that would occur in a museum and how it would look around and on the piece, describe the formal analysis of the piece I chose that is called Untitled and to also give brief background detail about the artists and when it was