Keith Haring: Untitled (The Boxers)
Two points of focus were crucial to the launch of Keith Haring's artistic career: the heroes of pop art in 1960s and the sculptural works of Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely. If Robert Rauschenberg and Tinguely in their own way worked on expressing art in terms of life without losing too much meaning, and on the "usability" and "usefulness" of art, also for people who are not specifically interested in art, so Haring also gave new dimensions to this euphoric artistic attention to life.
Comic PatternsIn 1979, his first chalk drawings on the black paper pasted over expired advertisements appeared in New York City's subway stations, which led to his discovery through the art market. The themes of Haring's artwork became richer during the 1980s, without there ever being a development in his work in the usual sense. His simple comic-like stroke and never-ending outline make the figures, animals and objects merge into an indissoluble pattern. The artist portrays both omnipresent medial images and older art motifs in an obsessively charged and sexual pictorial language. From around the middle of the 80s, he particularly dedicated himself to colored steel sculptures, considered as figurative shorthand for his pictures. He most liked to see them in parks and children's playgrounds.
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