His paintings are flat, primitive and childlike. He depicted angry images with heads, grimacing skulls, words, arrows etc. Keith Haring (late-C20). He had formal training in art. He drew cartoon-like images on advertising spaces in New York subway. The basis of his art is the drawn line. His imagery included sexual elements, flying saucers, running figures, instruments of communication and crawling babies. He painted on paper, fiberglass, canvas, enameled steel squares, badges, T-shirts, vases and plaster casts. He used thick black lines. He broke the barrier between high art and low art. Newer Realist Trends. A plurality of trends has been embraced. Some realists tried to learn from the immediate past, others from the Old Masters. Baroque and Classic realism were re-examined. Artists: Alice Neel, Alfred Leslie, Jack Beal, William Beckman, Martha M. Erlebacher, Steve Hawley, David
His paintings are flat, primitive and childlike. He depicted angry images with heads, grimacing skulls, words, arrows etc. Keith Haring (late-C20). He had formal training in art. He drew cartoon-like images on advertising spaces in New York subway. The basis of his art is the drawn line. His imagery included sexual elements, flying saucers, running figures, instruments of communication and crawling babies. He painted on paper, fiberglass, canvas, enameled steel squares, badges, T-shirts, vases and plaster casts. He used thick black lines. He broke the barrier between high art and low art. Newer Realist Trends. A plurality of trends has been embraced. Some realists tried to learn from the immediate past, others from the Old Masters. Baroque and Classic realism were re-examined. Artists: Alice Neel, Alfred Leslie, Jack Beal, William Beckman, Martha M. Erlebacher, Steve Hawley, David