Portrait of Keith Haring (Drawing The Line)
Robert Bowell
Kultur Films is very proud to present an art legend:
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring
"The bady boy master of wriggly urban art . . . a legacy of
courage and heart." - People Magazine
When artist Keith Haring died in February 1990 of AIDS, he left
behind an astonishing artistic legacy. In his 31 years, Haring had gone
from being an anonymous graffiti artist who drew chalk figures on New
York City subway posters to being called the successor to Andy Warhol and
Roy Lichtenstein.
Haring's heiroglyphics-like style filtered the modern world
through the perspective and wonderment of a child. Yet he always
incorporated social issues such as the fights against apartheid, crack
and AIDS into his work. In a few short years, his drawings became
ubiquitous, largely through the artist's eagerness to break the
boundaries between old and new ways of presenting art to the public by
decorating everything from walls to watches, billboards to buttons. He
even opened a store which sold his wide range of artifacts, the Pop Shop
in Manhattan.
This revealing profile of Keith Haring's work and world view
contains interviews with gallery owners Leo Castelli and Tony Shafrazi,
actor/friend/collector Dennis Hopper, Whitney Museum curator Barbara
Haskell, and many of the leaders of the international art scene. More
importantly, this is an inside view of a controversial artist whose
passion for the contemporary human condition was a fervor that drove his
art.
As the Village Voice observed in Haring's obituary, "Keith always
drew on the aesthetic of the street. There was a spontaneity in his
work, a free-flowing vitality that transcended all usual boundaries of
high/low culture and communicated instantly."
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