Keith Haring was preeminent among the young, artists, filmmakers, performers and musicians whose work responded to urban street culture of the 1980's. He developed a unique visual lexicon. Essential concepts - birth, death, love and war - were conveyed by the simplest of symbols energy, waves, hearts, glowing babies (his most famous life giving symbol) barking dogs, and antic Everyman figures. Haring's imagery was a signature of the era and has become a universally recognized visual language of the 20th century.