Wedding Invitation
Wedding Invitation
Signed Print
Keith Haring
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15 x 15cm, Edition of 50, Screenprint
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This signed screen print from 1987 is a limited edition of 50 by Keith Haring. Wedding Invitation shows two genderless figures depicted in bold, black lines and a beating red heart centred above them. The figure on the right stretches its arm out to embrace the figure on the left and it is clear that the print’s message centres around love, friendship and joy.
Haring uses his iconic energy lines to enact the movement of the beating heart and the liveliness of the figures embracing, working to create a print that is full of life. Throughout his artistic oeuvre, Haring used the motif of genderless figures embracing as a symbol for the power of working together. Thus, this joyful pictogram is apt for an invitation to a wedding, where the two figures in the image come together under a beating heart.
Published in an edition of 50 this print is signed by the artist. Though Haring had experimented with print techniques such as lithography in the late 1970s it wasn’t until 1983 that he began making screen prints. Representing the union of Haring’s painting and printing practice, it is an important part of his catalogue raisonné and demonstrates the essential importance of the drawn line in his work.
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