Flowers V
Flowers V
Signed Print
Keith Haring
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99 x 129cm, Edition of 100, Screenprint
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Meaning & Analysis
This signed screen print from 1990 is a limited edition of 100 from Keith Haring’s Flowers series. Flowers V shows an image of a large flower rendered in thick, dark outlines filled out with bright, vibrant strokes. Haring uses bright pastel colours of blue, yellow and orange against a vivid red backdrop to create a playful and lively image.
In his choice of colour palette and simplified form, Haring creates an aesthetically pleasing print, however the Flowers series explicitly references subversive themes surrounding HIV/AIDS, sexuality, life and death. Haring uses flowers as symbols of nature’s ephemerality and the fleeting impermanence of human life. In rendering the subject to look phallic, Haring makes clear the stigma experience by homosexual men during the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the way in which their sexuality was weaponised in relation to death and the fragility of life.
Haring injects this print with an otherworldly quality in its use of saturated colours and the flower’s unusual, abstracted form. Further to this, coloured dots are used by Haring to denote the otherness of homosexuality and illness, specifically AIDS, at the time. Flowers V aptly expresses Haring’s feelings of otherness and closeness to death in 1990.
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
