Keith Haring
20th Montreux Jazz Festival (Marechal 47)
1986
color screen printing
100 × 70 cm
Location: France
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About the artwork
This poster for the 20? Montreux Jazz Festival embodies the explosive encounter between Keith Haring and Andy Warhol. Haring's vibrant line combines with Warhol's pop icons to create a work that is both festive and emblematic of Montreux culture.
Expert opinion
This poster embodies the explosive synergy between Haring's graphic energy and Warhol's pop sensibility. Commissioned for a festival, it transcends its initial function to become the emblem of the 1980s fusion of music, art and culture.
About the artist
Keith Haring (1958-1990) was one of the leading figures of New York urban art in the 1980s. After studying at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he made a name for himself by spontaneously drawing with white chalk on black subway billboards. His playful, immediate and engaging style soon met with great success. His work is deeply influenced by graffiti, comics and street culture, but also by strong political themes: the fight against racism, the prevention of AIDS (from which he died in 1990), and the denunciation of social injustice.
Haring firmly believed in the accessibility of art: he opened his Pop Shop in 1986 to make his works affordable, while continuing to produce monumental public works around the world. His works have been exhibited many times, notably in New York in 1982 and in 2013 at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris.
“"If you want to know everything about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings, my films and me, and I'm there. There's nothing behind it. - Andy Warhol on his practice"”
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