Art Is Life
The Life of Artist Keith Haring
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Writer Tami Lewis Brown and illustrator Keith Negley present a joyful picture book biography of modern art icon Keith Haring, celebrating the ways his life embodied the message: art is for everyone.
Art is life...
and life is art.
Keith Haring believed that art should be enjoyed by everyone.
When Keith first moved to New York City, he rode the subway and noticed how the crowds were bored and brusque, and that the subways were decayed and dreary. He thought the people of New York needed liberating, illuminating, and radiating art. So he bought a stick of white chalk and started drawing…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As he moves through the pages of this picture book, a squiggly halo accompanies Keith Haring, "just like the art that skipped/ and hopped/ and snapped/ and popped/ inside Keith's head." Lewis Brown uses simple sentences occasionally stacked with descriptors to sketch moments in Haring's life, from a childhood drawing on his father's lap to scrawling on subway platforms in chalk and drinking tea with Andy Warhol, crafting a portrait of a much-loved man determined to share his art with many: "Art is for everybody. Art is life. Life is art." Negley's blunt, blocky forms use bright colors, collage-like texture, and Haring-esque shapes to evoke art that made "people smile and laugh and cry and think." It's a warm introduction to an accessible talent.
