1982
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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Line with Five Characters - French Urban Street Art Pop Art
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in London, GB
This original screenprint and lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist with his initials "J.D." [Jean Dubuffet] at the lower right corner. It is also dated "81" [1981] next ...
Lithograph, Screen
The Superintendent - Urban Street French Pop Art
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in London, GB
This screenprint is hand signed in pencil by the artist with his initials 'JD' (Jean Dubuffet) in the lower right corner. The work is also numbered in pencil 97 from the edition of ...
Screen
Composition I, from: Freedom of Liberties, poems of Alain Jouffroy - French Poet
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
This original etching and aquatint in colours is hand signed in white pencil by the artist "Miró" in the lower right image. It is also hand numbered 114 in white pencil from the edit...
Etching, Aquatint
Morton A. Mort, from: Expressionist Woodcut Series - Pop Art Expressionism
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in London, GB
This original woodcut in colours with embossing is hand signed in pencil "R. Lichtenstein" at the lower right margin. It is dated ‘80’ [1980] next to the signature. It is also number...
Woodcut
Composition XI, from The Elementary Memory - American Kinetic Art
By Alexander Calder
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Calder” at the lower right image. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition 39 of 100, at the l...
Lithograph
Galloping Race, from: Fables - French Urban Street Art Pop Art
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in London, GB
JEAN DUBUFFET 1901-1985 (Philippe-Arthur) 1901 Le Havre - Paris 1985 (French) Title: Galloping Race, from: Fables Course la galope: Fables, 1976 Technique: Original Hand Signed, D...
Screen
Pop Shop I (D)
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Created by Keith Haring in 1987, Pop Shop I (Plate D) is an original color screenprint measuring 12 x 15 in. (30.5 x 38.1 cm), unframed. The artwork is han...
Screen
Untitled
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Created by Keith Haring in 1985 as an original screenprint in colors, Untitled, 1985 is hand-signed, dated and numbered in pencil, measuring 23 ½ x 31 ½ in. (60 x 80 cm), unframed, f...
Screen
Growing 2 Screen Print by Keith Haring, Abstract Expressionist, 1988
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Growing (Plate 2), is the second installment of the artist’s Growing portfolio of 1988. This silkscreen has a background of bright yellow and depicts around six teal fig...
Screen
Pop Shop Quad IV
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Created by the artist in 1989 as an original screenprint in colors, though published at the time of his death, Keith Haring’s, Pop Shop Quad IV is amo...
Screen
Growing (Plate 3), from the Growing Portfolio
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Growing (Plate 3), from the Growing Portfolio Size: 40 x 30 Inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm) Medium: Screenprint in colors, on Lenox Museum Board, with full mar...
Screen
Growing I
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
An iconic and highly collectible screenprint, Growing I, part of a five-print portfolio created by Keith Haring in 1988, the print is hand-signed in pencil, dated and numbered, measu...
Screen
