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Based on Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring (1989)
Knowledge Questions (Remembering)
1. Who is Keith Haring?
2. Where did Keith Haring begin his art career?
3. List the reasons why he was arrested.
4. Describe his political concerns and state where they came from.
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Comprehension Questions (Understanding)
5. How would you describe Keith Haring’s work?
6. Explain how the Absolute Vodka campaign helped to develop Keith Haring’s career.
7. Discuss the influence Cristo’s work had on Keith Haring.
8. Summarize Keith Haring’s philosophy about the Pop Shop.
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Application (Transferring)
9. Compare and contrast Keith’s graffiti art to work later in his career.
10. Examine the types of social issues Keith addresses in his work.
What are the issues?
Why does he deal with these issues through his art?
11. If he were alive today, what social issues do you think he would he address in his art?
12. Apply Keith’s comments about the function of public art to any example of your choice in San Francisco.
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Analysis (Relating)
13. Analyze why some art critics call Keith Haring an outsider of the art establishment.
14. Relate the concepts explored in Keith Haring’s work to those explored in Cristo’s work.
15. Distinguish the similarities and / or differences between art critics Jeffery Deitch and Leo Castelli’s analysis of Haring’s work.
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Synthesis (Creating)
16. Formulate a statement about the function of public art based on the information you learned from both the article and the video about Keith Haring.
17. Design a piece of public art for the city of San Francisco based on your ideas about the function of public art and the philosophy of Haring. Include a sketch of the art and a written statement about its purpose.
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Evaluation (Judging)
18. How do your own ideas about the function of public art compare and contrast with Keith Haring’s? Justify your reasoning based on the reading, the video, and your personal design philosophy.
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