STrUCTioN - Taschen

January 2013
January 2013
Happy land
Painting as a concept
The cheerful art of street culture's most famous proponent
By the time of his death from AIDS at the age of 31, Keith Haring (1958-1990) was
already a wildly successful and popular artist. Haring’s original and instantly recognizable
style, full of thick black lines, bold colors, and graffiti-inspired cartoon-like
figures, won him the appreciation of both the art world and the general public; his
work appeared simultaneously on T-shirts, gallery walls, and public murals. In 1986,
Haring founded Pop Shop, a boutique in New York’s SoHo selling Haring-designed
memorabilia, to benefit charities and help bring his work closer to the public and
especially street kids, with whom he never lost contact.
Back in Print!
The oft-misunderstood work of a brilliant artist
A tragic icon of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) took influences
from Picasso and Mexican surrealism and developed his own way of seeing,
interpreting, and expressing. Though his name inevitably conjures up images of the
drip paintings for which he is most famous, this technique was only developed midway
through his career. The progression from his earlier work to his final “action”
paintings —a veritable revolution of painting as a concept—reveals the genius of this
tortured artist whom many call the greatest modern American painter.
Back in Print!
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