Keith HaringHeadstand1998
1998
About the Item
- Creator:Keith Haring (1958-1990, American)
- Creation Year:1998
- Dimensions:Height: 35.83 in (91 cm)Width: 23.63 in (60 cm)
- Period:
- Framing:Framing Options Available
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Winterswijk, NL
- Reference Number:Seller: KC017661stDibs: LU1124210776172
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.”
Find Keith Haring art on 1stDibs today.
You May Also Like
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Landscape Prints
Paper, Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Still-life Prints
Paper, Etching
1840s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1830s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1810s Modern Figurative Prints
Etching
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Mixed Media
1980s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1810s Modern Figurative Prints
Etching
More From This Seller
View All20th Century More Prints
Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Rag Paper, Digital
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Portrait Prints
Paint, Paper
20th Century More Prints
Paper
2010s Street Art Abstract Prints
Paper, Giclée




