Apocalypse 1

Keith Haring

1988

Color screenprint

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A central red form, resembling a tree or flame, is flanked by two images of the Mona Lisa with X's over their eyes. A dense crowd of small figures is depicted at the bottom, and abstract black shapes and red splatters are scattered throughout. A central red form, resembling a tree or flame, is flanked by two images of the Mona Lisa with X's over their eyes. A dense crowd of small figures is depicted at the bottom, and abstract black shapes and red splatters are scattered throughout. Multidisciplinary artist and activist Keith Haring created <i>Apocalypse</i> in collaboration with the writer William S. Burroughs to draw public attention to the ravages of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Burroughs’s Surrealist prose was a frequent source of inspiration for Haring and had a definitive impact on this series, which was published two years before the artist’s own death from HIV/AIDS. In