Keith Haring dogs
For Keith Haring, the barking dog became a universal symbol of voice, energy, and resistance. First seen in his New York subway drawings of the 1980s, the dog radiates lines of sound and motion — a bold metaphor for speaking out, creating, and being heard. In works like Barking Dog (MoMA, New York) and Untitled (Dog) (Whitney Museum of American Art), Haring transformed this simple figure into a lasting emblem of freedom, communication, and the pulse of urban life.