Gee, I believe just about anyone can create art, if this is considered art. 😋
Posted on 08/24/2022 3:55:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A wall drawing of Keith Haring’s signature “Radiant Baby” is coming to auction.
Haring drew the figure, a crawling infant surrounded by a halo, in gold marker above a light switch on the wall of his childhood bedroom in his hometown of Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
The drawing will hit the auction block on September 14, when it will be offered as part of a postwar and contemporary art sale at the New Jersey auction house Rago/Wright’s. The drawing, which measures 5 inches in height, will be offered for sale still affixed to a portion of the blue wall on which it was painted.
Haring, who moved to New York in 1978 to attend the School of Visual Arts, traveled back often to visit his family’s home in Pennsylvania. Christine Isabelle Oaklander, an art historian, assisted the Pennsylvania house’s current owners in bringing the work to auction. Oaklander believes the artist likely produced the gold-pen drawing during a visit before his death in 1990 at the age of 27 from AIDS-related complications.
Set to be auctioned this fall alongside the drawing are two posters Haring made for events benefiting Long Island Focus on Art in 1988 and City Kids Speak on Liberty in 1986. Rago/Wright’s has not yet disclosed estimates for the works.
Anyone can see it’s a work of genius.
I was just reading in a library book about Keith Haring’s artworks with Grace Jones. That was the first time I’d heard of him, and now here he is again.
Gee, I believe just about anyone can create art, if this is considered art. 😋
Well it’s no Elvis on black velvet.
Everyone _can_ create art. It’s part of what makes us human. :-)
...What folks are willing to pay or acknowledge is another thing! :-D
Well said.
No. It is not. More’s the pity.
How do they know it’s a baby and not a wry comment on how he contracted AIDS?
🙂 Good question.
My Chihuahua could draw that!!!
I know he was all the rage in the 80s with his weird cartoon style drawings and his HIV status. He was very hip at the time, but like so many cultural darlings, they fade away because their work is just so shallow and temporal.
He was only famous because of his sexual orientation. A prop. Blehh.
I actually think someone like John Waters, another counter culture icon, had/has a lot more talent. But its all just personal taste.
Looks like the result of some really good turd polish.
With "Modern Art", the who is at least as important as the what.
But then again why would I when I detest that form of art. 🙂
I used to pass his works daily on the walls of the inclined walkway between the #7 and the Lex. Ave lines in the Grand Central subway station.
For others who passed through GC back then, “Don’t forget the children.” LOL!!
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