KEITH HARING POP ART OIL ON PAPER (1958-1990)
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MEASURMENTS:29"HX36"W FRAMED, NO GLASS IN FRAME VERY GOOD CONDITION/ "in the style of" Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language"Haring first received public attention with his graffiti art in subways, where he created white chalk drawings on black, unused advertisement backboards in the stations.He considered the subways to be his "laboratory", a place where he could experiment and create his artwork and saw the black advertisement paper as a free space and "the perfect place to draw".The Radiant Baby, a crawling infant with emitting rays of light, became his most recognized symbol. He used it as his tag to sign his work while a subway artist. Symbols and images (such as barking dogs, flying saucers, and large hearts) became common in his work and iconography. As a result, Haring's works spread quickly and he became exceedingly more recognizable. /Private collection, no documentation.
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KEITH HARING POP ART OIL ON PAPER (1958-1990)
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