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Keith HaringCrack Down Poster1986
1986
$225
£171.68
€195.30
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About the Item
Super vibrant Keith Haring poster.
Original 1st print release from 1986.
The poster artwork was made by Haring for a 2 night Crack benefit concert with the first show at Madison Square Garden.
Features Haring artwork that highlighted the crack problem in the 80's in New York City.
Haring's artwork would also be considered Street Art.
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- Creator:Keith Haring (1958-1990, American)
- Creation Year:1986
- Dimensions:Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)
- Movement Style:
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- Condition:Never been framed or displayed. May have very light handling marks if any present at all.
- Gallery Location:Englishtown, NJ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1624217360422
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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