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Born on  4th May 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania
grew up in Kutztown

experimental and rebellious adolescence -> drugs

presentation of his work in  Pittsburgh
not satisfied anymore there

Major break -> NY

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Walt Disney cartoons, Dr. Seuss (political cartoonist), Charles Schulz (Comic author), and the Looney Tunes characters in The Bugs Bunny Show

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studied commercial art from 1976 to 1978 at Pittsburgh's Ivy School of Professional Art

maintenance job at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

then little jobs e.g. as a busboy

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moved to New York in 1978 to study painting at the School of Visual Arts

studied semiotics (=communication, interconnection)

got inspired to interconnect his pieces of art

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Shows at P.S. 122 and Club 57

Drew murals with political themes such as the reunification of Germany on the Berlin wall

Got the chance to paint a wall at the National Gallery of Australia

Opened his own shop "Pop shop" and sold his paintings. Topics: anti-Apartheid, AIDS awareness, and the crack cocaine epidemic

world-wide recognition

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1988: Aids diagnose
compaigns: awareness of aids, safe sex

After his death:
-benefit concert of Madonna
-many foundations in his name for Aids help

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Public Projects
Drawings
Collages
Posters
Murals

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Editions: Portrait of Joseph Beuys

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Painting

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Sculpture:
Hat  for  and  body painting on Grace Jones