Talk:Art of the AIDS Crisis

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Keith Haring
There's a lot of great work been done here, but I'm surprised there's no mention of Keith Haring here. Could someone who knows more about the topic expand the article — and submit it for Good or Featured quality? — OwenBlacker (Talk) 13:40, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Changes to be Made
I would love to add more to this article including more background on why artist turned to art to express themselves, adding more details about current artists listed, and adding more major artists from this time.

Here is a list of sources I would like to use to edit this page:

Johnson, Steve. “AIDS Art Gets Its First Major Survery.” Chicagotribune.com, 7 Dec. 2016, www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-art-aids-america-exhibit-ent-1208-20161207-story.html.

Katz, Hushka, Arning, Castiglia, Reed, Helfand,. . . Tacoma Art Museum, host institution. (2015). Art AIDS America.

Nicole Disser. “Controversial Retrospective Of American Art From The AIDS Crisis Lands In The Bronx.” Gothamist, Arts & Entertainment, 19 July 2016, gothamist.com/2016/07/19/art_aids_america_review.php#photo-1.

Studio, familiar-studio.com Familiar. “Visual AIDS.” Visual AIDS, www.visualaids.org/.

www.haring.com/!about-haring#.WeqqOBNSxPM. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashbennett (talk • contribs) 02:21, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

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I added two new artists to this page, Keith Haring, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Both of these men were major artists who contributed to the artistic scene of this time, and helped to change art for years to come. I also added a few sentences to the introduction of this page, which I believe helped to further explain the feelings surrounding the AIDS pandemic. Ashbennett (talk) 02:02, 4 November 2017 (UTC) Ashbennett

Khanh's peer review
I really enjoyed reading your interesting paragraphs about Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe. Both were naturally and passionately interested in art since childhood. Both artists were similarly diagnosed with AIDS around 1980s. Both were very well-known artists. They were different in that Mr. Haring produced colorful happy modern art and Mr. Mapplethorpe provided black and white serious portraits. Both probably helped to shape public opinion about AIDS during their lifetimes and even later through foundations. Thank for including the two artists in the article “ART of the AIDS Crisis” during the early AIDS pandemic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ngkhanh (talk • contribs) 23:58, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Peer Review
The two artists you added were good selections. The article addition was well written and remained neutral, it gave a quick overview of the artists’ lives, highlighted what was important, and the artists’ impact by AIDS and/or their contribution to those affected by the disease. A suggestion from me would be to include some some of their work or at least the one they are most well known for since it is an article about art after-all. Other than that, great job! Jaimejusto (talk) 06:55, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Peer Review
Your addition of Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe are both very appropriate. I think you did a very thorough job of succinctly summarizing each person's background story and significant contributions to the AIDs epidemic. The addition seems to be very well thought out as it follows a nice format and outline that begins with the artist's beginnings and ends with the foundations they established.

Keith Haring's paragraph was well written. However, I do suggest some rephrasing and minor grammatical fixes in Robert Mapplethorpe's paragraph. Please find my suggestions in parentheses.

Robert Mapplethorpe, born in 1946, fell in love with art and photography at a young age. He began experimenting with polaroid’s, which led to his first exhibit and continued with photography after acquiring a camera. [He experimented with polaroids which led to his first exhibit. After acquiring a camera, he continued on with photography.] Mapplethorpe shot photographs that many at the time found “shocking.” These photographs included work of the New York S & M scene and nudes of males and females. In the year 1986 when he was diagnosed with AIDS, Mapplethorpe had a number of commissions, including but not limited to, designing dance performance sets and taking portraits of New York artists for the book, 50 New York Artists [Robert had a number of commissions when he was diagnosed with AIDs in 1986. These included but are not limited to designing dance performance sets and taking portraits of New York artists for the book, 50 New York Artists.] Before Mapplethorpe passed away in 1989 he managed to not only make a huge impact on modern art but also establish the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation which promotes and supports continuation of the arts as well as help fund medical research for AIDS. [Before passing away in 1989, Mapplethorpe managed to not only make a huge impact on modern art but also establish the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation which promotes and supports continuation of the arts as well as help fund medical research for Aids.]Thubtran92 (talk) 04:19, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[18]

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Collaboration Wanted to Incorporate Marginalized Voices in this Topic
First of all, I appreciate the fact that you covered such an interesting and prevalent topic in a very professional manner. I think that the way that this page was set up was very well thought out. However, the one thing that I noticed with this article is that it seemed to have a more Western Civilization focused lens on this topic. While, I think that focusing on this part of the world is essential, representing more marginalized communities and is something that should be emphasized as a part of this subject. I wanted to let you know that I am planning on drafting an article that is going to talk about the impacts of South African Folk Music on the AIDS Crisis as this would allow for a different part of the world as well as different populations of people (especially people of color) will be able to have their voices recognized, especially since South Africa was the epicenter of this epidemic.

I do want to make sure that I'm being respectful of the wonderful work that is already taking place here on this page, especially to those who initially created this article. Therefore any collaboration is truly wanted as I want to make sure that I am not plagiarizing this article. -Giannamadden (talk) 22:29, 30 April 2024 (UTC)