1. Keith Haring

2. About Keith Haring Keith Haring was a graffiti artist.
He started his artistic career drawing cartoon like figures on the walls of the New York subways
In the subways when a poster space wasn’t being used it was painted black.
Keith Haring decided that this was too boring so drew on these black spaces with white chalk

3. Subway Art
We’ll watch a short movie about Keith Haring and his drawing in the subway

4. Graffiti Art
Subways were not the only place that Keith Haring would draw on
As far as he was concerned cement walls, sidewalks, telephone posts, even dumpsters were all fair game for drawing on.

5. The word on the street…
Soon almost everyone in New York had seen Keith Haring’s public art work and some offered him a show in an art gallery.

6. In living color Keith Haring always drew dynamic figures.
Dynamic means that the people look like they are in motion.

7. Dynamic Poses

8. More Dynamic Figures

9. Dancing
Keith Haring made art in the 1980s when break-dancing was popular.
Many of his works of art are of people break-dancing.
We are going to make our own Keith Haring Dancers for our next project

10. The rules of Keith’s art
Keith cartoon like people were always
only one solid color
outlined in black
had a different color background
Had action-lines surrounding them to imply movement
didn’t have any details like fingers, toes or facial features.

11. Red + Blue = Violet Red + Yellow = Orange Blue + Yellow = Green
Color mixing
Red + Blue = Violet
Red + Yellow = Orange
Blue + Yellow = Green

12. Here are the steps Mrs. Rowe will divide you into pairs.
Each person will pick out a primary color
Red
Yellow
Blue
Each pair will get a very very large piece of paper.
One person will be the dancer and one will be the tracer.
The dancers must lay down in a neat and interesting frozen dance move.
The tracer will trace the dancer in the primary color that the dancer picked out.
Then trade so that the dancer is now the tracer and the tracer is now the dancer

13. Next step
5. Raise your hand when both you and your partner have been traced Mrs. Rowe will check your work

14. Next step Put a X in your color where the two bodies do not overlap
Put a X in the secondary color that your two colors make everywhere the two bodies do overlap

15. Next Step Paint the primary colors spaces
Then paint in the secondary color space

16. Next Step Cut out the overlapping figures Paste them the background
The background color should be third primary color
Cut out action lines out of the remaining secondary colors

17. Works Cited