c.1989
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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Keith Haring Andy Warhol 1986
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring, Andy Warhol 1986: Rare, highly sought-after oversized 1986 folding announcement card / poster illustrated by Keith Haring & Andy Warhol ...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring "Des Refusés" Westbeth Painters Space 1981 (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring "Des Refusés" Westbeth Painters Space 1981: RARE original 1981 invitation for Keith Haring's first New York solo show at the historic Westbeth Theater Painters Space in...
Offset
Keith Haring Fun Gallery 1983 (announcements set of 2)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Fun Gallery 1983: A set of 2 rare original 1983 Keith Haring illustrated announcements published on the occasion of Haring's historic ...
Offset
Rare Keith Haring Pop Shop Brussels 1988 (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Pop Shop Brussels 1988: Extremely rare vintage original Keith Haring Brussels Pop Shop advertisement designed by Haring to advertise the opening of his "Pop Shop in Brus...
Paper, Offset
Keith Haring The Homecoming 1987 (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring The Homecoming 1987: RARE folding announcement designed by Haring in 1987 to promote, "The American Run for the End of Aids". A rare, historic Keith Haring activist coll...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring Fun Gallery 1983 (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Fun Gallery 1983: Rare original 1983 Keith Haring illustrated announcement published on the occasion of Haring's historic 1983 show at...
Offset
Galerie Watari Tokyo, Original Lithographic Poster, Framed, 1983
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Original offset lithographic poster printed in colors on Japanese pearlescent wove paper. Unsigned. From the edition of 1000. Published by On Sundays Publications, Tokyo, on the o...
Paper, Lithograph
Keith Haring (1958-1990). Galerie Watari, exhibition poster, 1983 Lithograph
By Keith Haring
Located in Draper, UT
1983 Japanese pearlescent paper 27 × 20 in 68.6 × 50.8 cm Edition of 1000 2 colors printed matter on Japanese Kirabiki Paper
Lithograph
Keith Haring: Tony Shafrazi Gallery Poster /// New York Street Pop Art Exhibit
By Keith Haring
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990) Title: "Keith Haring: Tony Shafrazi Gallery" *Signed and dated by Haring in the plate (printed signature) lower center Year: 1988 Medium: O...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring (1958-1990). Galerie Watari, exhibition poster, 1983 Lithograph
By Keith Haring
Located in Draper, UT
1983 Japanese pearlescent paper 27 × 20 in 68.6 × 50.8 cm Edition of 1000 2 colors printed matter on Japanese Kirabiki Paper
Lithograph
KEITH HARING Art Attack on AIDS, 1988 Vintage Pop Art
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The history between "Art Attack on AIDS" and Keith Haring is rooted in Haring's deep commitment to raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and using art as...
Screen
Keith Haring Exhibition Poster for Tony Shafrazi Gallery
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Exhibition Poster for Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1988 Offset color print 25 x 34 in. Framed: 29 1/8 x 38 1/4 x 1 in. Signed and dated in plate at bottom A Keith Haring exhi...
Offset
