{"id":1098,"date":"2018-05-07T19:13:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T19:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2018-05-07T19:13:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T19:13:26","slug":"wow-work-of-the-week-keith-haring-untitled-c-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wow\/wow-work-of-the-week-keith-haring-untitled-c-d","title":{"rendered":"WOW! \u2013 Work of the Week \u2013 Keith Haring \u2013 Untitled C & D"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Keith Haring<\/div>\n
Untitled C<\/div>\n
1987<\/div>\n
Lithograph<\/div>\n
11 x 14 3\/4 in.<\/div>\n
Edition of 100<\/div>\n
Pencil signed, dated and numbered<\/div>\n
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Keith Haring<\/div>\n
Untitled D<\/div>\n
1987<\/div>\n
Lithograph<\/div>\n
11 x 14 3\/4 in.<\/div>\n
Edition of 100<\/div>\n
Pencil signed, dated and numbered<\/div>\n
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About the work:<\/div>\n
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1987<\/div>\n
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The nation of South Africa was in a state of emergency. Serious political violence had arisen over Apartheid and the National Party had won an election, yet again.<\/div>\n
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41,027 people had died of AIDS complications in America, and another 71,176 people were diagnosed with the disease. After 6 years of silence, then-president Ronald Reagan finally used the word “AIDS” in public for the first time.<\/div>\n
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Crack-cocaine incidents in the US had increased to 94,000 from 23,500 only 2 years prior – a 300% jump.<\/div>\n
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Keith Haring’s work sums up New York cool. He was friends with Madonna, Andy Warhol, David Bowie, among many others who represented the 80’s culture boom. By the start of the decade, the artist had developed a fresh aesthetic, with roots in punk, hip-hop and graffiti. His strong lexicon of caricature-like images in flat, bold colors, are so deceivingly simple and joyful that it is easy to be blinded to its political and activist content.<\/div>\n
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Keith Haring was a fierce and tireless socio-political activist throughout his life, and had a rational of intervention and standing up for oppressed communities. He was opposed to the institutionalized racial segregation in South Africa, fought for increased sexual education for the gay population in the face of the AIDS epidemic and was determined to raise awareness of the effects of crack-cocaine which ravaged the disenfranchised black society of the US.<\/div>\n
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This week’s Work of the Week! WOW!<\/strong> is Untitled C & D<\/em>, from the untitled suite of 4 lithographs created in 1987. This suite was purposely done as a lithograph and not a silkscreen, the dimensions of the works are slightly smaller, and the edition size is smaller.\u00a0It is limited to only 100 pieces.\u00a0This was done\u00a0so as not to be confused with the Pop Shop series, which were released on a more\u00a0commercialized level.\u00a0As with the vast majority of Haring’s work, this\u00a04 piece suite of lithograph\u00a0references\u00a0deep commentary on societal unease.<\/div>\n
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Throughout Keith Haring’s work, the image of a television\u00a0represents the\u00a0mass media. The character depicted in\u00a0Untitled C<\/em>\u00a0is on TV covering his eyes.\u00a0At first, the saying\u00a0“See no evil,”\u00a0comes to mind. This\u00a0is quite the opposite.\u00a0Haring wants us to open our eyes and speak out against\u00a0these\u00a0evil\u00a0atrocities, and\u00a0not\u00a0to\u00a0cover our eyes, or\u00a0turn a blind eye to it. Thanks to Haring’s repetitive use of symbols referencing different ailments of society, we know what he is critiquing.<\/div>\n
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In\u00a0Untitled D<\/em>,\u00a0the yellow character seems to be tossing, or pushing away, another figure in blue\u00a0that bears an X on his belly.\u00a0The X is symbolic of the crack-cocaine epidemic that ravaged mostly impoverished segments of the country. Today, it is widely accepted that this particular pandemic was ignored by the media, at the time,\u00a0in light of the people it was affecting. This is something that Haring was acutely aware of, and through this work, he gently provides a humanizing context that\u00a0not only\u00a0speaks to the situation, but also to his position.<\/div>\n
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Despite being one of the most influential and sought after artists of the 20th century, Keith Haring always remained true to his beliefs and humanity. He used his voice and platform for those who needed a supporter and champion. Untitled C & D<\/em> are a clear wake-up call to the public to be aware of the problems society at large. This is what Haring’s art was about, it is not only colorful, whimsical characters that makes people smile. His entire body of work spoke volumes of the socio-political issues plaguing the world at the time.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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