1988
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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Apocalypse 10
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Apocalypse 10 Size: 38 × 38 in 96.5 × 96.5 cm Medium: Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board Edition: 75 of 90 Year: 1988 Notes: Hand-signed by a...
Screen
Apocalypse 6
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Apocalypse 6 Size: 38 × 38 in 96.5 × 96.5 cm Medium: Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board Edition: WP (Working Proof) of 90 Year: 1988 Notes: Ha...
Screen
Apocalypse 3
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Apocalypse 3 Size: 38 × 38 in 96.5 × 96.5 cm Medium: Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board Edition: of 90 Year: 1988 Notes: Hand-signed by artis...
Screen
Apocalypse 8
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Apocalypse 8 Size: 38 × 38 in 96.5 × 96.5 cm Medium: Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board Edition: of 90 Year: 1988 Notes: Hand-signed by artis...
Screen
The King
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: The King Size: 23 3/8 × 29 7/8 in 59.4 × 75.9 cm Medium: Lithograph Edition: of 50 Year: 1989 Notes: Hand Signed, Numbered & Dated in Pencil. Custom F...
Lithograph
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
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
Untitled
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Created by Keith Haring as a color lithograph on BFK Rives paper, Untitled, 1986 is hand-signed, dated, and numbered in pencil. Measuring 24 x 32 in. (61 x 81 cm.), unframed, this pr...
Lithograph
Keith Haring Apocalypse VI Offset Print, Framed Pop Art, 1980s
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage offset lithograph postcard published by Art Unlimited Amsterdam. Printed in Holland. The postcard is framed in a black wood frame with a front profile of 1 inch and a side pr...
Offset
Keith Haring Silkscreen VIII from Apocalypse Pop Art Vintage
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Silkscreen VIII from Apocalypse is a 1988 vintage offset lithograph postcard, published by Art Unlimited Amsterdam and printed in Holland. The postcard is framed in a black wood fram...
Offset
Keith Haring Apocalypse XII Offset Print, Framed Pop Art, 1980s
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage offset lithograph postcard published by Art Unlimited Amsterdam. Printed in Holland. The postcard is framed in a black wood frame with a front profile of 1 inch and a side pr...
Offset
Haring, Future Primeval, 1990 (after)
By Keith Haring
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Keith Haring (1958-1990) (after) Title: Future Primeval Year: 1990 Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper Size: 37 x 21 inches Notes: Published and printed by Martin Lawrenc...
Offset
