Keith Haring
Keith Haring born 4 may 1958, in Reading Pennsylvania. His field of art that he focused on was Pop art and Graffiti art. Keith was trained at the School of visual arts.
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Haring grew up in Kutztown and was interested in art from an early age. From 1976 to 1978 he studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art, a commercial and fine art school in Pittsburgh. At age 19 Haring, who was openly gay, moved to New York City, where he was inspired by graffiti art, and studied at the School of Visual Arts.
He achieved his first public attention with chalk drawings in the subways of New York The exhibitions were filmed by the photographer Tseng Kwong Chi. Around this time, The Radiant baby became his symbol. His bold lines, vivid colors, and active figures carry strong messages of life and unity. In 1980 he organized exhibitions in Club 57. He participated in the Times Square Exhibition and drew, for the first time, animals and human faces. In 1981 he sketched his first chalk drawings on black paper and painted plastic, metal and any types of objects he found.
He contributed in the New York New Wave display in 1981, and had his first exclusive exhibition in the Tony Shafrazi Gallery. That same year, Haring took part in Documentary 7 in Kassel, Germany. By 1982, he established friendships with emerging artists Kenny Scharf, Madonna and Jean-Michel Basquiat. He took part in the Whitney Biennial in 1983, as well as in the São Paulo Biennial. He knew Andy Warhol very well and was a close compatriot of his, which he became the theme of several of Haring's pieces including Andy Mouse.
In 1984, Haring visited Australia and painted wall murals in Melbourne for example the 1984 Detail Mural at Collingwood Colleg, Victoria that is due for demolition and Sydney from the National Gallery of Victoria and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art to create a mural, based on his graffiti designs, which temporarily replaced the water curtain at the National Gallery. He also visited and painted in Rio de Janeiro, the Paris Museum of Modern Art, Minneapolis and Manhattan. He even designed a jacket worn by a pink wigged Madonna for a performance of her song Like a Virgin for the TV dance program Solid Gold.
In 1985 he started to paint canvas. Simultaneously, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux opened an exhibition of his works, and took part in the Paris Biennial. He made an appearance on MTV in November 1985, painting the set during a guest VJ special hosted by his friend, keyboardist Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran. In 1986 Haring painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix and in Berlin on the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate. As well, he painted the body of Grace Jones for her music video I'm Not Perfect. and opened a retail store in SoHo called Pop Shop, selling merchandise bearing his iconic images the outlet closed in 2005. By then, his work began reflecting more socio-political themes, such as anti apartheid, AIDS awareness, and the cocaine epidemic. He even created several pop art pieces influenced by other products: Absolut Vodka, Lucky Strike cigarettes, and Coca-Cola. In 1987 he had his own exhibitions in Helsinki and Antwerp, among others. He also designed the cover for the benefit album A Very Special Christmas, on which Madonna was included.
An homage painted in 2008 to the local artist, on the corner of Houston Street and The Bowery in the East Village of New York City.
In 1988, he was diagnosed with AIDS. He established the Keith Haring Foundation in 1989, its mandate being to provide funding and imagery to AIDS organizations and children's programs, and to expand the audience for Haring’s work through exhibitions, publications and the licensing of his images. Haring enlisted his imagery during the last years of his life to speak about his own illness and generate activism and awareness about AIDS.
In June 1989, on the rear wall of the convent of the Church of Sant'Antonio in Pisa, he painted the last public work of his life, the mural Tuttomondo. Haring died in 1990 of an HIV related disease. As a celebration of his life, Madonna declared the first New York date of her Blond Ambition World Tour a benefit concert for Haring's memory, and donated all proceeds from her ticket sales to AIDS charities including AIDS Project Los Angeles the act was documented in her film Truth or Dare.
By expressing concepts of birth, death, love, sex and war, Haring's imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century. May 4th 2008 would have been Haring's 50th birthday. In June 2008 there was a retrospective exhibition containing 200 pieces of his work from the collection of Sigrid Wecken open to the public in Terrassa, Spain.
Haring's work was featured in Madonna's 2008 Sticky and Sweet Tour during the song Into the Groove.
Keith Haring May 4, 1958 February 16, 1990 was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s.
Haring's sculpture 1 of 3 in the plaza of Lever House,New York City
Haring's Radiant Baby
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Sunday, May 3, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Contextual studies
1. Industrialization is the process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one. It is a part of a wider modernization process, where social change and economic development are closely related with technological innovation, particularly with the development of large-scale energy and it metallurgy production. It is the extensive organization of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. Industrialization also introduces a form of philosophical change, where people obtain a different attitude towards their perception of nature. In our world today we are controlled buy machines like we once controlled them, they force us to build more and more and force out any natural things that can sustain our lives they threaten our wellbeing. We are forced to rely on machinery since its part of our every day lives.
2. This statement relates to each film because it shows how we rely on technology today to live our modern lives and we act as if we cant live without it because in this modern age technology is still growing and is everywhere we go. The films show this buy showing how men rely on technology to sustain life in the city, but like all machinery it needs man to maintain them to keep them running. In both of the movies using and maintaining technology/machinery which becomes a routine of daily living the people do in there lives and nowadays people are in a routine using technology but this constant routine is going to continue in years to come due to new technological machinery still developing. Even though these films were in the past it still shows how technology has taken over our lives and is still endlessly advancing today. Walter Benjamin makes this issue clear by saying and I quote “For the last twenty years neither matter nor space
nor time has been what it was from time immemorial.”
Essay
I ROBOT
This essay shows the comparison between two films, “I Robot” and “Metropolis.” The first paragraph will explain the themes between the films. The second paragraph will show the similarities in visual and narrative qualities. The third paragraph will show the differences in visual and narrative qualities and the forth paragraph will conclude the comparison of the two films.
This paragraph will show the themes between I Robot and Metropolis, in the movie metropolis there is the love theme, which becomes one of the main focal points in the movie, this is exactly the same as in I Robot there is a feeling of love been passed through the movie as it goes on. Another theme that is also apparent is the hero theme, there is always somebody trying to save humankind and will do anything to prove he is right and to save the people who he loves as well, this theme is also joined by the villain theme because both movies also posses this cause they both have people in it who want to rebel against the system to harm humankind, and which in the end the villain fails and there is always a hero at the end of the day.
This paragraph will show the similarities in visual and narrative qualities. In both of the films they show how man is a slave to new technology in our world today, machines form a big part of our lives and will do what it takes to become more dependent on them because robots can do so much more but always at a cost.
This paragraph will show the differences in visual and narrative qualities. These to films have very similar ways of portraying there views bout the machine world and who the villains are and who the heros are but a major difference is the quality of the way it is shown in I Robot hi quality film shows the detail and the intensity of the film where as Metropolis relies on strange music and very strange movement in the film, which this shows how technology has grown.
In the conclusion between the two movies I have shown the similarities and differences between each film.
1. Industrialization is the process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one. It is a part of a wider modernization process, where social change and economic development are closely related with technological innovation, particularly with the development of large-scale energy and it metallurgy production. It is the extensive organization of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. Industrialization also introduces a form of philosophical change, where people obtain a different attitude towards their perception of nature. In our world today we are controlled buy machines like we once controlled them, they force us to build more and more and force out any natural things that can sustain our lives they threaten our wellbeing. We are forced to rely on machinery since its part of our every day lives.
2. This statement relates to each film because it shows how we rely on technology today to live our modern lives and we act as if we cant live without it because in this modern age technology is still growing and is everywhere we go. The films show this buy showing how men rely on technology to sustain life in the city, but like all machinery it needs man to maintain them to keep them running. In both of the movies using and maintaining technology/machinery which becomes a routine of daily living the people do in there lives and nowadays people are in a routine using technology but this constant routine is going to continue in years to come due to new technological machinery still developing. Even though these films were in the past it still shows how technology has taken over our lives and is still endlessly advancing today. Walter Benjamin makes this issue clear by saying and I quote “For the last twenty years neither matter nor space
nor time has been what it was from time immemorial.”
Essay
I ROBOT
This essay shows the comparison between two films, “I Robot” and “Metropolis.” The first paragraph will explain the themes between the films. The second paragraph will show the similarities in visual and narrative qualities. The third paragraph will show the differences in visual and narrative qualities and the forth paragraph will conclude the comparison of the two films.
This paragraph will show the themes between I Robot and Metropolis, in the movie metropolis there is the love theme, which becomes one of the main focal points in the movie, this is exactly the same as in I Robot there is a feeling of love been passed through the movie as it goes on. Another theme that is also apparent is the hero theme, there is always somebody trying to save humankind and will do anything to prove he is right and to save the people who he loves as well, this theme is also joined by the villain theme because both movies also posses this cause they both have people in it who want to rebel against the system to harm humankind, and which in the end the villain fails and there is always a hero at the end of the day.
This paragraph will show the similarities in visual and narrative qualities. In both of the films they show how man is a slave to new technology in our world today, machines form a big part of our lives and will do what it takes to become more dependent on them because robots can do so much more but always at a cost.
This paragraph will show the differences in visual and narrative qualities. These to films have very similar ways of portraying there views bout the machine world and who the villains are and who the heros are but a major difference is the quality of the way it is shown in I Robot hi quality film shows the detail and the intensity of the film where as Metropolis relies on strange music and very strange movement in the film, which this shows how technology has grown.
In the conclusion between the two movies I have shown the similarities and differences between each film.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
3rd year Contextual Studies 02/02/09
Humanism
The dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appealing to universal human qualities, particular race related. Humanism can be considered as a process by which truth and morality is sought through human investigation Humanists endorse universal morality based on the commonality of the human condition, suggesting that solutions to human social and cultural problems cannot be just based on a small community.
Positivism
That which holds the only authentic knowledge is that based on actual experience. Such knowledge can come only from affirming that the theories are true through strict scientific method. The positivist view is sometimes referred to as scientific way of thinking, and is often shared by the modern day person who believe in the necessity of progress through scientific progress, and by naturalists, who argue that any method for gaining knowledge should be limited to natural, physical, and material approaches. In psychology, a positive approach is good behavior
Materialism
That holds the only thing that can be truly proven to exist is matter, and is considered a form of being able to physically touch the object or matter. Fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions; therefore, matter is the only substance.
Enlightenment
Broadly means wisdom or understanding enabling clarity of perception. However, the English word covers two concepts which can be quite distinct: religious or spiritual enlightenment and secular or intellectual enlightenment.
In religious use it is mostly associated with south and east Asia religious experience, where as secular the concept refers mainly to the European intellectual movement known as the age of enlightenment.
Bibliography: http//www.wikipedia.com
The dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appealing to universal human qualities, particular race related. Humanism can be considered as a process by which truth and morality is sought through human investigation Humanists endorse universal morality based on the commonality of the human condition, suggesting that solutions to human social and cultural problems cannot be just based on a small community.
Positivism
That which holds the only authentic knowledge is that based on actual experience. Such knowledge can come only from affirming that the theories are true through strict scientific method. The positivist view is sometimes referred to as scientific way of thinking, and is often shared by the modern day person who believe in the necessity of progress through scientific progress, and by naturalists, who argue that any method for gaining knowledge should be limited to natural, physical, and material approaches. In psychology, a positive approach is good behavior
Materialism
That holds the only thing that can be truly proven to exist is matter, and is considered a form of being able to physically touch the object or matter. Fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions; therefore, matter is the only substance.
Enlightenment
Broadly means wisdom or understanding enabling clarity of perception. However, the English word covers two concepts which can be quite distinct: religious or spiritual enlightenment and secular or intellectual enlightenment.
In religious use it is mostly associated with south and east Asia religious experience, where as secular the concept refers mainly to the European intellectual movement known as the age of enlightenment.
Bibliography: http//www.wikipedia.com
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