Keith Haring The Political Line

My experience with Keith Haring has been limited to a few happy-looking sculptures in public gardens and Swatch watches..His large scale works at the DeYoung were a revelation. He turned out to have been a much more politically inclined artist than I had thought. The crowded, stylized people/animal drawings remind me of ancient friezes or hieroglyphics. And the busy imagery, like those of ancient times, are violent and disturbing when viewed up close.