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Bad Boys 3 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1986 - MyArtBroker

Bad Boys 3
Signed Print

Keith Haring

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 30

Year: 1986

Size: H 51cm x W 66cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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Meaning & Analysis

Bad Boys 3 is reminiscent of the bold lines of Pre-Columbian art – especially those of Nazca lines – and aboriginal art, pertaining to Haring’s debt to non-western artistic traditions. The use of free flowing lines that create a frenzy against the plain backdrop work to sustain a tension between complex pattern and immediateness of viewing. Much like many of Haring’s works from his oeuvre, his use of bold lines create a sense of energy and dynamism that is unique and eye-catching.

Completed four years prior to his tragic death by AIDS in 1990, Haring’s Bad Boys series is a pivotal work that uses sexual image to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. Throughout his career, Haring used a simplistic and immediate visual language in his works to communicate and raise awareness of complex ideas surrounding the socio-political crises of 1980s New York. By using abstracted lines to fill the bodies of each figure, Haring maintains a sense of fun in this explicit image.

  • Keith Haring was a luminary of the 1980s downtown New York scene. His distinctive visual language pioneered one-line Pop Art drawings and he has been famed for his colourful, playful imagery. Haring's iconic energetic motifs and figures were dedicated to influencing social change, and particularly challenging stigma around the AIDS epidemic. Haring also pushed for the accessibility of art by opening Pop Shops in New York and Japan, selling a range of ephemera starting from as little as 50 cents. Haring's legacy has been cemented in the art-activism scene and is a testament to power of art to inspire social change

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