The Blueprint Drawings 12
The Blueprint Drawings 12
Signed Print
Keith Haring
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108 x 117cm, Edition of 33, Screenprint
Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 33
Year: 1990
Size: H 108cm x W 117cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: September 2015
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Meaning & Analysis
The Blueprint Drawings 12 from 1990 is a limited edition of 33 from Keith Haring’s The Blueprint Drawings series, completed the year of the artist's tragic death by AIDS.
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.
Throughout the series Haring revisits recurring pictograms to communicate complex ideas through a simplistic visual language.
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
