Graffiti, as the form of unified will with human expression desire and easily can be found in anywhere, has been founded on social communication and response to public.
Thats why the painters emotional expressions are easily conveyed to an unspecifie...
Graffiti, as the form of unified will with human expression desire and easily can be found in anywhere, has been founded on social communication and response to public.
Thats why the painters emotional expressions are easily conveyed to an unspecified number of the general public. Graffiti has not been bound by a certain rule or form, but has been developed its own modeling. Further more, Graffiti has expanded into illustration that represents the painters faith, value, and feeling in response to the various social problems. In 1980s, keith Haring(1958∼1990) was active, the skepticism and criticism about Modernisms formality have emerged, at the same time, the classical sense of value on the beauty started to collapse. By admitting relativity of equal localism rather than pursue absolute value, not only various styles appeared, but also the discrimination of medium disappeared. In other word, the period of post-modernism, replacing elitism of art with the art of general public, started from this moment.
In this circumstance, Keith Haring had tried to convey at that time social issue to the public by actively using Graffitis communicational function one of the Graffitis inherent natures.
Like the ancients formulated the communication system while they depict a wall painting, Keith Haring had tried to formulate a new communication system between public and artist while he draw a painting in the wall of subway by making full use of a new modernistic modeling language. And those paintings had many factors of Graffiti illustration. And like the simplified images, as symbolic expression such as letter, symbol, sign, are used in the painting, most of Keith Harings works are composed of the symbolic scrabbling. Keith Haring had his own symbolic and creative world of art by emphasizing the only peculiar feature of object with simple line and developed the image that could move toward public intimately.
The work was not on ambiguous painting that the painter only could understand, but a clear painting that a general public could easily understand.
The work of Keith Haring, upgrading the simple scribbling into pure art, has played a key role to break down the wall between the public and artist by making full use of Graffiti illustrations special feature.
Followings are those reasons why Keith Harings work bears great singificance in the field of painting art.
First, Keith Haring has always placed the general public in the first consideration and tired to communicate with general public. Further more, he considered the mass society as the heart of culture, he have tried to find the art, the existing dominant high-class culture, from the field of popular culture. In addition, that his work has played a key role to break down the gap of a high-class art verse a low-class art, a gallery art verse a wall art of subway.