Keith Jarring
1980s Street Art Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
People Also Browsed
1980s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Offset
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Paper, Screen
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Linocut
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
20th Century Cubist Figurative Prints
Linocut
Mid-20th Century Portrait Prints
Paper, Linocut
1980s Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Sumi Ink
1980s Street Art Abstract Prints
Color, Screen
1980s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Offset, Lithograph
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Screen, Paper
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Paper, Screen
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Felt Pen
1970s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Paper, Lithograph
1980s Pop Art Paintings
Mixed Media, Acrylic
1980s Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Earthenware
Recent Sales
1980s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Chalk
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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