The Blueprint Drawings 1
The Blueprint Drawings 1
Signed Print
Keith Haring
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108 x 192cm, Edition of 33, Screenprint
Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 33
Year: 1990
Size: H 108cm x W 192cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: October 2024
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Meaning & Analysis
This signed screen print form 1990 is a limited edition of 33 from Keith Haring’s The Blueprint Drawings series. Regarded as the last cohesive project of the artist's career, The Blueprint Drawings 1 shows a series of frames rendered in Haring’s iconic linear style, exclusively black rounded lines against a white backdrop, whereby scenes of genderless figures, dogs and UFOs play out as a vision of chaos. Haring makes explicit references to sex, religion, death and AIDS as a means to confront the viewer with difficult issues of the time.
Originally produced as unique works on paper with Sumi ink, Haring displayed these works in a one-week exhibition in Manhattan in 1980 where not a single drawing was sold. However, he did find success in the sale of several blueprint copies of the original drawings and so revisited the subject in 1990, a month before his tragic death creating a portfolio of 17 screen prints of the original images.
Speaking of the difference between his subways drawings and his studio prints Haring has said: ‘I do use a little moral discretion between what I put on the street and what I put on the subway. The things in the studio obviously have more sex. But I think it’s inevitable that the subway drawings have it too because it’s part of my life and part of the rest of the body of 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
