Porcelain plate "Man / Dog"
Porcelain plate "Man / Dog"
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porcelain | signature | Ø 21 cm | incl. gift box
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Porcelain plate "Man / Dog"
Plate made of fine porcelain with motif from the work "Untitled" (1985). Created in an exclusive collaboration between the Keith Haring Foundation and Ligne Blanche Paris. © Keith Haring Foundation. Diameter 21 cm, with Keith Haring's signature on the back. Shipped in an attractive Keith Haring gift box.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany Email: info@arsmundi.de
About Keith Haring
1958-1990
In New York City in the 1980s, an art movement emerged from the obscurity that continues to inspire young artists today with its anarchic character and memorable visual language: With Keith Haring's graffiti, street art was born and his unmistakable figures became part of mass culture.
Graffiti is the colourful symbolic painting of public outdoor spaces, which today is part of our daily lives and often considered a nuisance. Already in the 1970s, young people sprayed words, logos and thickly outlined comic-like figures on the walls of New York subway stations to express their social protest.
Keith Haring, born in 1958 in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, could identify "with the style, taste and colour" of these artists. In 1981, he began his graffiti work in the New York underground after studying art at the School of Visual Arts in New York and Pittsburgh in the late 1970s. He was therefore not one of those artists who started as a street artist and then was discovered, he rather used the streets as a canvas as a trained painter.
He shared his penchant for evenly filling the picture surface with rapport-like sequences of figures with his role models from American abstract expressionism. After his appearance at the documenta in Kassel in 1982, he became friends and collaborated with the Pop artist Andy Warhol.
Keith Haring commercialised his style in his Pop Shop, which opened in 1988. There he primarily sold his motif of the agile "Radiant Child" baby figure radiating joie de vivre and optimism as T-shirt prints. He also used his artistic success to push through unusual concepts.
Keith Haring had been infected with immunodeficiency AIDS and drew attention to this disease in numerous campaigns. Keith Haring died of AIDS-related complications at the age of 31.
In the early 1950s, a movement took over the cultural scene. Young artists from the U.S. and the UK independently broke with all traditions of artistic creativity, giving rise to a new art movement in modern art.
In the U.S., Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and James Rosenquist who were seeking their themes in the world of advertising and comics, in star cult and anonymous urban culture. With bright colours, over dimensioning and manipulating depth perspective, they created new provocative works. Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi became pioneers of Pop Art in England through the famous "This is Tomorrow" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. In the 1960s, they were followed by David Hockney, Allan Jones, Peter Phillips and Derek Boshier.
Ceramic product made of kaolin, quartz, and feldspar.
Porcelain is formed by turning or pressing, and figurative objects are cast. Complex objects have to be cast in separated steps and sections, and then "assembled". After the moulding, the pieces are dried and undergo an initial firing at about 900°C. Next, the glaze will be applied and fired at temperatures between 1,240 °C and 1,445 °C. In renowned manufactories, the porcelain is painted by hand, with each colour being fired individually under strict temperature tolerances.
Porcelain was invented in China and became widespread in Europe from the 16th century onwards. The first European porcelain factory was founded in Meissen, Germany in 1710.
Other famous European porcelain factories include Fürstenberg, Höchst, Schwarzburger Werkstätten, Lladró, Nymphenburg, KPM, Augarten, Sèvres, Limoges, Royal Copenhagen, Worcester. Each factories label their products with their personal porcelain stamps to indicate their origin.