Apocalypse 2
1988
Color screenprint
A chaotic and energetic composition featuring abstract figures, a robot-like creature, and two Mona Lisa portraits. Bold lines and vibrant colors dominate the artwork. A chaotic and energetic composition featuring abstract figures, a robot-like creature, and two Mona Lisa portraits. Bold lines and vibrant colors dominate the artwork. 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 each of these ten prints, Haring invokes a range of motifs characteristic of
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