Does anyone know who was the artist that had brightly colored type stick people in all of his paintings?

Question

I remember him being really big in the mid 80's to mid 90's due to his work on AIDS Awareness because he too was diganosed with the diease himself.

Answer 1

The artist you're after is Keith Haring, who, sadly, died in 1990.

Answer 2

You might mean Edvard Munsch (who painted The Scream). But you could mean any of a thousand other painters as well. If you could include a more detailed description of one of the paintings you have seen, that would be helpful, in answering your question more accurately.