Keith Haring (1958–1990), and his immediately recognisable style, played a key role in his generation's counterculture. Best known for his iconic motifs (barking dogs, crawling babies, flying saucers), Haring's work was politically charged and motivated by activism related to gay and minorities rights, Aids, Anti-Apartheid. Expanded on wide-ranging legacies and influences (abstract expressionism, pop art, Chinese calligraphy, New York graffiti artists), his work expressed universal concepts of birth, death, love, sex, war and compassion. |