In the context of We the Youth (Keith Haring), explore the Conception of the Historical Information.
We the Youth was painted to commemorate the bicentennial of the United States Constitution and the title plays on the phrase "We the people" from the preamble of the document. It was a pro bono collaboration between Haring, city kids of New York and Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia. Haring worked alongside a group of fourteen high school students from New York and Philadelphia as well as with the artists Clarence Wood, Gilberto Wilson, and Jose Seabourne. Mykul Tronn, one of the participating art students, said of the mural:The picture doesn't actually say much about the Constitution, but bringing people from all different backgrounds and all different places ... to work on this mural is doing something unified, and that has to do with the constitution.The mural was originally intended as a temporary placeholder until a new rowhouse was built on the empty lot.
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