Pop Shop IV 1989

This is Keith Haring’s “Pop Shop IV”, probably made using screenprinting. It just screams graphic boldness. Haring was all about making art accessible, and you see that in the simplicity of the forms and the bright colors. It’s like a visual shout, pure and direct. The surface is super flat, right? No brushstrokes, no fuss. Just clean, crisp lines defining these figures. Look at the way the red bodies pop against that yellow background. Each shape is outlined in black, giving it this cartoonish, almost iconic feel. The little dashes radiating from the baby make me think about warmth and protection. Haring’s work reminds me a bit of Léger, that same interest in reducing figures to their essential forms. But Haring brings a streetwise energy, a pulse that’s all his own. In the end, art is all about remixing and re-imagining, right? Taking what’s come before and spinning it into something new.