Kenny Scharf Animal Prints

Kenny Scharf at Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, 1984: Offset printed announcement card. Dimensions: approx 4 x 5 inches. Good overall condition for its age. Postmarked 1984. Features Scharf printed signature lower left. A rare historical 1980s Kenny Scharf collectible that would look fantastic framed. Show also featured a live performance by Club 57 luminarie Ann Magnuson. Kenny Scharf Muralist, painter, sculptor, and installation artist Kenny Scharf is best known for his fantastical, large-scale paintings of anthropomorphic animals and imagined creatures, as in Viva Mare Viva Mar (2011). Though Scharf’s brightly colored imagery is generally playful, he has remarked that darker themes exist beneath the surface of his works, visible upon closer inspection. Scharf was a part of the 1980s East Village Art movement, along with his good friend and fellow street artist Keith Haring. The artist says he has been influenced by all 20th-century art movements, including Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, the latter reflected in his appropriation of cartoon characters from television shows like the Flintstones and Jetsons. About Tony Shafrazi In 1979, Shafrazi opened his first New York gallery, and within a few years he had made his reputation handling talents like Donald Baechler and then-hot graffiti artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf and also European artists like Brian...