Keith Haring Inflatable Baby
1980s Pop Art Mixed Media
Plastic, Cardboard, Mixed Media, Offset
People Also Browsed
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1980s Pop Art Mixed Media
Metal
1970s American Modern Nude Photography
Silver Gelatin
1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1980s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Screen
1980s Pop Art Mixed Media
Lithograph, Offset
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Paper
1980s Pop Art Mixed Media
Metal
Mid-20th Century European Art Deco Toys and Dolls
Mohair, Cotton, Glass
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Cotton, Screen
1980s Pop Art Mixed Media
Paper, Ink
Antique Late 19th Century Sterling Silver
Silver, Sterling Silver
1970s Minimalist Figurative Prints
Etching, Stencil
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Cotton, Screen
1980s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Offset, Lithograph
2010s Sculptures
Resin
Recent Sales
Late 20th Century Street Art Figurative Sculptures
Plastic, Cardboard
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Plastic, Screen
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Screen, Cardboard
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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