Keith Haring Quiz: Subway Chalk Drawings and Radiant Baby

This Keith Haring quiz rides the New York subway in the early 1980s, where a young artist drew on empty ad panels. Play 10 interactive questions on white chalk on black paper, arrests for his drawings, the Radiant Baby and barking dog, the Pop Shop, the Crack Is Wack mural, a mural on the Berlin Wall, Tuttomondo in Pisa and his AIDS activism.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

City
Where did Haring draw in subway stations?
Material
What did he draw with on black ad panels?
Trouble
What sometimes happened while he drew?
Baby
Which symbol is his signature?
Dog
Which animal often appears in his art?
Shop
What did Haring open in 1986?
Mural
Which anti-drug mural did he paint in Harlem?
Wall
Which famous wall did he paint in 1986?
Pisa
What is his Tuttomondo?
Cause
Which cause did Haring support near the end of his life?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Where did Haring draw in subway stations?
Answer: New York
He drew in the early 1980s.
Q2: What did he draw with on black ad panels?
Answer: White chalk
Empty panels were covered in black paper.
Q3: What sometimes happened while he drew?
Answer: He was arrested
Drawing on panels was illegal.
Q4: Which symbol is his signature?
Answer: The Radiant Baby
Lines shine around a crawling baby.
Q5: Which animal often appears in his art?
Answer: A barking dog
It is drawn in bold outline.
Q6: What did Haring open in 1986?
Answer: The Pop Shop
It sold affordable art items.
Q7: Which anti-drug mural did he paint in Harlem?
Answer: Crack Is Wack
It is beside a highway.
Q8: Which famous wall did he paint in 1986?
Answer: The Berlin Wall
It was painted over soon after.
Q9: What is his Tuttomondo?
Answer: A large mural in Pisa
It means all the world.
Q10: Which cause did Haring support near the end of his life?
Answer: AIDS awareness
He died in 1990.

Chalk Lines on the Subway

Keith Haring moved to New York and, in the early 1980s, began drawing in subway stations. Empty advertising panels were covered with black paper, and he filled them with quick drawings in white chalk. Commuters watched him work, and police sometimes arrested him.

His bold outlines created a language of symbols, including the Radiant Baby, a crawling baby with lines shining around it, and a barking dog. In 1986 he opened the Pop Shop in SoHo to sell affordable art items. He painted the Crack Is Wack mural in Harlem and a section of the Berlin Wall.

In 1989 he painted Tuttomondo, a large mural on a church wall in Pisa. Diagnosed with AIDS, he founded a foundation to support AIDS awareness and children's programs. He died in 1990 at 31.

What This Quiz Teaches

Art fans will enjoy these questions.

Where he began
Which symbols he used
Which murals he painted
What his shop sold
Which causes he supported

Did You Know?

He worked with children often.
Dancing figures fill his art.
He was friends with Madonna.
His style is easy to recognize.
Many murals are now protected.