Icons Winged Angel
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About This Work
Keith Haring’s *Icons Winged Angel* distils his instantly recognisable visual language into a radiant emblem of protection, transcendence, and civic hope. Executed with Haring’s signature bold contour line and high-contrast, graphic colour, the winged figure reads like a contemporary hieroglyph—direct, accessible, and charged with urgency. Rooted in the artist’s subway drawings and street-derived mark-making, the composition harnesses repetition, simplified anatomy, and rhythmic movement to create an image that feels both sacred and pop. Created within the cultural heat of 1980s New York, the work reflects Haring’s commitment to public communication and activism, where icons function as shared symbols addressing community, visibility, and the politics of the body.
About the Artist
Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activis...
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