I will give a paper about Keith Haring called "Keith Haring - a Street Artist? ".
June 17
15h00 – 15h30 Panel 6
Ulrich Blanché - Keith Haring - a Street Artist?
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Abstract:
Since about
2000 Street Art is an art movement. Before that only a handful of artists did
what we call Street Art in 2016. One of them was Keith Haring. But to what
extent is Keith Haring in retrospect a Street Artist? Using the example of
Haring's subway chalk drawings (ca. 1980-85) and one of his public murals,
called “Crack is Wack” (1986), I discuss concepts such as Street Art, Graffiti
and Public Art.
Some of
Keith Haring’s works are Street Art because he carried them out in a
performative way, without permission, in public spaces. They might be called
Street Art because those works explicitly refer to this public space, they were
indeed often tailor-made for their location, and because as a result of their
illegality and their union with the each location they were ephemeral, not
conceived in time permanently. “Crack is Wack”, however, became a public art
mural. It changed its’ status from an illegal, Graffiti-inspired,
self-authorized work of Street Art to long lasting Public Art.
11h00 – 12h15 Panel 1
Ulrich Blanché – Book launch: “Banksy Urban Art in a Material World”
Ulrich Blanché – Book launch: “Banksy Urban Art in a Material World”