Keith Haring's art makes me happy! How about you?

Want to know more about the man who created this art? There is a full length movie about him, called The Universe of Keith Haring. Here is the trailer (it's good!):

It began with the baby, crawling innocently across the walls of New York's subway stations. Keith Haring first made a name for himself in the early 1980's filling every blank poster-frame in the city's sprawling subway system with barking dogs, flying saucers, rubbery dancers-and that radiant baby.

'The reason that the 'baby' has become my logo or signature is that it is the purest and most positive experience of human existence,' wrote Haring in his journal in 1986. 'Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life.'

Haring gave art lessons and painted murals with children of all ages and backgrounds. 'Whatever else I am,' he mused in a 1987 journal entry, ' I'm sure I, at least, have been a good companion to a lot of children and maybe have touched their lives in a way that will be passed on through time, and taught them a kind of simple lesson of sharing and caring.'

Keith Haring died from complications from AIDS in 1990. He was 31 years old.
- Adapted from Keith's Kids, Andrea Codrington

The Keith Haring Foundation has a fun interactive web page where you can color and play games with his art. Just click and go!

Download coloring pages to print & color at home!

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