Angel (white)
Angel (white)
Unsigned Print
Keith Haring
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54 x 64cm, Edition of 60, Screenprint
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Meaning & Analysis
This signed screen print from 1990 is a limited edition of 60 from Keith Haring’s White Icons series. Angel (white) is an embossing on white paper that shows a winged figure with its arms and legs spread outwards. Exactly mimicking the artist’s Icons series but without colour, this print corresponds with Haring’s Angel print. Angel is demonstrative of the way Haring shapes religious source material to reflect contemporary concerns of his generation.
Much like fellow graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haring reuses particular symbols, all present in the White Icons series, to produce a memorable pictorial language. The angel is an image used repeatedly by Haring, in works such as Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1984) and Anti-Nuclear Rally (1982), to speak to the ambiguities and socio-political injustices of the time. Angel overflows with paradoxical themes like life and death, good and evil, religion and sexuality, heaven and hell. This paradox is further exemplified when considered alongside other prints in the Icons series, notably Flying Devil.
Haring produces a set of recognisable positive symbols and clear-cut narrative views in his use of simplified form and repetition of images from previous works. The way in which Haring has depicted these images in the White Icons series without their original saturated colours works to simplify the images down even further to produce a more subtle tone to the works.
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
