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Keith HaringOriginal handwritten and hand signed letter to an aspiring young artistca. 1987
ca. 1987
About the Item
- Creator:Keith Haring (1958-1990, American)
- Creation Year:ca. 1987
- Dimensions:Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 15 in (38.1 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
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- Condition:This one-of-a-kind Keith Haring letter was originally mailed to the recipient, so it contains the three folds from mailing, visible in photos. Other than some age toning to the paper, it is in very good vintage condition w/no tear. Ships framed.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU174529945182
Keith Haring
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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