
Dancing Figures, SONY CASSETTE-CORDER Original Drawing
View Similar Items
Keith HaringDancing Figures, SONY CASSETTE-CORDER Original Drawing
About the Item
- Creator:Keith Haring (1958-1990, American)
- Dimensions:Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 15 in (38.1 cm)Depth: 5 in (12.7 cm)
- Medium:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU3821931653
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.”
Find Keith Haring art on 1stDibs today.
More From This Seller
View All1980s Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
1980s Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
1980s Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
1980s Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
1980s Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Permanent Marker
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
You May Also Like
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Plastic, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Plastic, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
2010s Mixed Media
Enamel
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Plastic, Permanent Marker
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
1980s American Impressionist Mixed Media
Permanent Marker