Friday, May 30, 2008

The Radiant Baby


I am not those people who really know much bout those paintings by famous artist.. The first paintings i show interest in is The Scream from Edvard Munch.. I dunno why i am interested in that painting, just take it as love at first sight..

Then, there's one day when i am in a friend's tattoo shop and i saw this painting hanging on the wall.. It is so colourful and nice.. It has a certain style in the painting.. Cartoonish and colourful.. The best words to describe it.. Its not the first time i saw it but it is the first time i can observe it in a close distant or just say the real painting..Without knowing who's the artist, i really dont have any keywords to search for it in the internet.. Everytime when i saw the style of the drawing, i just try to dig deeper and deeper to find the origin of the paintings but luck really not at my side all the time.. This goes on for a few years until..
Until one day, when i was having a hair cut, my friend flipping through the magazine and found out the guy who is taking responsibility for all my zero results searching.. Keith Haring.. For all the artist, their paintings are their business cards, but make sure next time put your name on it and your contact details.. Haha..

Going through Wikipedia, i know more bout him.. He was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s.. He studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art, a commercial and fine art school in Pittsburgh.. Keith later moved to New York City, where he was greatly inspired by the graffiti art, and additionally studied at the School of Visual Arts... Bla bla bla.. go check it out in wikipedia.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Haring

Ya, he was gay and died in 1990 of an HIV related disease.. A foundation, The Keith Haring Foundation was established in 1989 to assist AIDS-related and children's charities, and maintains the largest resource of archives on the late artist, Keith Haring..

Its happy to solve something bothering you in your head.. Like when you know the melody of a song but just couldn't know the title of it and keep playing in your head.. Mystery solved.. Signing off..

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