
Rare Signed Keith Haring "Art Attack on Aids" Poster
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Rare Signed Keith Haring "Art Attack on Aids" Poster
About the Item
- Creator:Keith Haring (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 41.5 in (105.41 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
- Style:Post-Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1988
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. The poster is in good vintage condition with no rips or tears, but it does have several creases inside the frame. The piece has not been inspected outside the frame.
- Seller Location:San Diego, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: #38721stDibs: LU936641310452
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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