Apocalpyse 6

Keith Haring

1988

Color screenprint

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A stylized depiction of the Mona Lisa is framed by abstract black lines and colorful shapes. Two large, disembodied hands dominate the upper portion of the image, one wearing a calculator-like device on its wrist. A stylized depiction of the Mona Lisa is framed by abstract black lines and colorful shapes. Two large, disembodied hands dominate the upper portion of the image, one wearing a calculator-like device on its wrist. 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, Hari