Keith Haring Inspired lightbox

Keith Haring Pop Shop Quad LightboxPop Shop Quad I is a screenprint executed by the artist in 1987. The print in quad form is from a small edition of 45 compared to his other individuated, larger scale versions of Pop Shop series. The portfolio takes its title from the artist’s famed Pop Shop opened by Keith Haring a year earlier in SoHo, New York. These works capture Haring’s well developed visual lexicon at what can be seen to be the height of his career. In Haring’s Pop Shop Quad I, Haring’s idiosyncratic matchstick figures lock hands, dance and embrace each other. Each box contains a miniature narrative of friendship and celebration that reaches its culmination when we view the quad altogether, similar to a comic strip. Haring’s signature bold line and block colours create a visual style that is straightforward for its purpose in delivering its message of unity. But though sparse in detail, Haring’s lines still manage to convey movement, excitement and innocence: in the third squar