Keith Haring Free South Africa Poster 1985
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Offset, Lithograph
1980s Street Art More Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Contemporary Nude Prints
Mixed Media, Screen
People Also Browsed
2010s African Modern Side Tables
Brass
1980s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
1980s Pop Art Nude Photography
Silver Gelatin
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Offset
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Lithograph, Offset, Paper
1970s American Modern Nude Photography
Silver Gelatin
Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Ink, Gouache
1980s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Offset
1970s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1970s American Modern Nude Photography
Silver Gelatin
1960s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Lithograph, Paper, Screen
1980s Pop Art Nude Prints
Lithograph, Offset
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Lithograph, Offset
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Screen
Recent Sales
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Archival Paper, Lithograph
Late 20th Century Mixed Media
Plastic, Permanent Marker
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Lithograph, Offset
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Lithograph, Offset
1980s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Offset
20th Century Contemporary Mixed Media
Mixed Media
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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