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Babies
Keith Haring loved children & treasured the purity & innocence they embodied. The "radiant baby" was one of his signature images & appeared in many incarnations throughout his work: pregnant women dancing giddily, babies with halo & wings, cradled in their mother's arms or playing with their dad. Matched with insightful entries from his writings, these joyful drawings continue to entertain, inspire, & provoke. Born in 1958, by the time Haring came to N.Y. in 1978 to attend the School of Visual Arts, he had developed a style of simple outline drawing that derived from Disney cartoons & the sophisticated "primitivism" of such artists as Pierre Alechinsky & Jean Dubuffet. Small format.
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64 pages, Hardcover
First published October 20, 2000
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Keith Haring
85 books44 followersKeith Haring (1958–1990) grew up in Pennsylvania and moved to New York in 1978 to enroll in the School of Visual Arts. Over the following decade, he made some of the most widely recognized artwork of the twentieth century.
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May 15, 2018
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I highly recommend everyone to read this children's picture book because it is absolutely beautiful to read about babies and the positive and innocence energy to give off to people. Keith Haring believes babies are one of the positive images you can capture to the human being eyes and it reflects tremendously in his art. I remember the paintings of pregnant women, babies, and it is a repetitive theme in his artwork. His message about babies is spot on and I think people need to realize that hatred is not born but created by how our parents raised us, the culture we surround ourselves in, and the environment around us.
Babies are not born with evil or hatred in their hearts because they are innocent creatures whose sole focus is to be loved, cuddled, and have someone attend to their daily needs. We are the ones that nurture them and must make it our daily mission to teach them that they should love everyone who comes in all shapes and sizes and not judge them because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or whether they are rich or poor. For being a children's book there are powerful images shown throughout and I LOVE this book and must have my own copy!
I highly recommend everyone to read this children's picture book because it is absolutely beautiful to read about babies and the positive and innocence energy to give off to people. Keith Haring believes babies are one of the positive images you can capture to the human being eyes and it reflects tremendously in his art. I remember the paintings of pregnant women, babies, and it is a repetitive theme in his artwork. His message about babies is spot on and I think people need to realize that hatred is not born but created by how our parents raised us, the culture we surround ourselves in, and the environment around us.
Babies are not born with evil or hatred in their hearts because they are innocent creatures whose sole focus is to be loved, cuddled, and have someone attend to their daily needs. We are the ones that nurture them and must make it our daily mission to teach them that they should love everyone who comes in all shapes and sizes and not judge them because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or whether they are rich or poor. For being a children's book there are powerful images shown throughout and I LOVE this book and must have my own copy!
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