Keith Haring (1958-1990)

"I am trying to latch onto a more typically American simplicity, like that of Stuart Davis and Pop Art. I am not very much involved in European art. Maybe its content is stronger due to its cultural heritage, and American art and culture are perhaps emptier and more plastic, but that can be an advantage…" (K. Haring, quoted in E. Sussman, “Songs of Innocence at the Nuclear Pyre,” Keith Haring, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1997, p. 22)