Picture "Dog" (1986)
Picture "Dog" (1986)
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limited, 40 copies | numbered | signed | dated | lithograph on Rives paper | framed | size 119 x 93 cm
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Picture "Dog" (1986)
The dog has become one of Haring's iconic motifs. Traditionally, artists have used it to represent loyalty, camaraderie, and obedience.
The barking dog first appeared in Haring's work in his series of New York subway drawings from 1980 to 1985 and developed into a symbol of oppression and aggression.
In the lithograph presented here, the artist fills the animal with almost his entire arsenal of signs. The "Dog" was produced in a small edition of 40 copies and is rarely available on the market - a collector's tip!
Lithograph, 1986. Edition of 40 copies and on BFK Rives paper, signed, dated and numbered. Offered here: E.A. copy. Motif size/sheet size 116.5 x 89.9 cm. Size in frame 119 x 93 cm as shown.
About Keith Haring
1958-1990
In New York City in the 1980s, an art movement emerged from the obscurity that continues to inspire young artists today with its anarchic character and memorable visual language: With Keith Haring's graffiti, street art was born and his unmistakable figures became part of mass culture.
Graffiti is the colourful symbolic painting of public outdoor spaces, which today is part of our daily lives and often considered a nuisance. Already in the 1970s, young people sprayed words, logos and thickly outlined comic-like figures on the walls of New York subway stations to express their social protest.
Keith Haring, born in 1958 in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, could identify "with the style, taste and colour" of these artists. In 1981, he began his graffiti work in the New York underground after studying art at the School of Visual Arts in New York and Pittsburgh in the late 1970s. He was therefore not one of those artists who started as a street artist and then was discovered, he rather used the streets as a canvas as a trained painter.
He shared his penchant for evenly filling the picture surface with rapport-like sequences of figures with his role models from American abstract expressionism. After his appearance at the documenta in Kassel in 1982, he became friends and collaborated with the Pop artist Andy Warhol.
Keith Haring commercialised his style in his Pop Shop, which opened in 1988. There he primarily sold his motif of the agile "Radiant Child" baby figure radiating joie de vivre and optimism as T-shirt prints. He also used his artistic success to push through unusual concepts.
Keith Haring had been infected with immunodeficiency AIDS and drew attention to this disease in numerous campaigns. Keith Haring died of AIDS-related complications at the age of 31.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.