Pop Shop Quad Iv
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Paper, Screen
1980s Figurative Prints
Screen
People Also Browsed
1960s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Gouache, Board
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Linocut
18th Century Portrait Paintings
Oil
15th Century and Earlier Gothic Figurative Sculptures
Wood
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Handmade Paper
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Ceramic
1950s Abstract Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Ceramic, Earthenware
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Lithograph, Crayon
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Post-War More Art
Ceramic, Earthenware
1950s Post-War Figurative Sculptures
Earthenware
1960s Cubist Animal Prints
Linocut, Paper
1960s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Paper, Gouache
17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Mixed Media
1970s Pop Art Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Graphite, Paper
Keith Haring for sale on 1stDibs
Keith Haring began experimenting with his bold, graphic lines and cartoon-inspired figures on the walls of New York City subway stations in the early 1980s. He called them his “laboratory,” places to develop a radical new aesthetic based on an ideology of creating truly democratic public art.
Haring’s paintings, prints and murals address the universal themes of death, love and sex, as well as contemporary issues he experienced personally, like the crack-cocaine and AIDS epidemics. They derive much of their impact from the powerful contrast between these serious subjects and the joyful, vibrant pictographic language he uses to express them, full of dancing figures, babies, barking dogs, hearts and rhythmic lines, as well as references to pop culture.
To make his art even more accessible, in 1986, Haring opened the Pop Shop in Soho. In a foreshadowing of today’s intermingling of art and fashion, the shop sold merchandise and novelty items featuring imagery by Haring and contemporaries like Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. While his works sometimes included text, for the most part, he chose to communicate through drawing.
“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times,” Haring once declared. “It lives through magic.”
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Finding the Right figurative-prints-works-on-paper for You
Bring energy and an array of welcome colors and textures into your space by decorating with figurative fine-art prints and works on paper.
Figurative art stands in contrast to abstract art, which is more expressive than representational. The oldest-known work of figurative art is a figurative painting — specifically, a rock painting of an animal made over 40,000 years ago in Borneo. This remnant of a remote past has long faded, but its depiction of a cattle-like creature in elegant ocher markings endures.
Since then, figurative art has evolved significantly as it continues to represent the world, including a breadth of works on paper, including printmaking. This includes woodcuts, which are a type of relief print with perennial popularity among collectors. The artist carves into a block and applies ink to the raised surface, which is then pressed onto paper. There are also planographic prints, which use metal plates, stones or other flat surfaces as their base. The artist will often draw on the surface with grease crayon and then apply ink to those markings. Lithographs are a common version of planographic prints.
Figurative art printmaking was especially popular during the height of the Pop art movement, and this kind of work can be seen in artist Andy Warhol’s extensive use of photographic silkscreen printing. Everyday objects, logos and scenes were given a unique twist, whether in the style of a comic strip or in the use of neon colors.
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