Keith Haring

KEITH HARING (Pennsylvania, 1958- New York, 1990) MEDICOM TOY.
"Andy Mouse."
Vinyl plastic.
In its original box.
Measurements: 19 x 16 x 8 cm; 23 x 21 x 14 x 14 cm (box).
"Andy Mouse" of Medicom Toy, is a figure based on the character created by Keith Haring. It is a hybrid between Mickey Mouse and Andy Warhol. Haring idolized Warhol and considered him the only "real" pop artist. They met shortly before a Haring exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery. Warhol and Haring began collaborating in 1986 with the Andy Mouse series. Mickey Mouse appeared frequently in the work of Haring, who also created a Mickey Mouse clock in 1986 for his Pop Shop. The Andy Mouse character is a representation of Andy Warhol as Mickey Mouse. Both Haring and Warhol had a fascination with Disney, especially Mickey.
Keith Haring was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti grew out of the street culture of New York City in the 1980s. Haring's work grew in popularity thanks to his spontaneous drawings on the New York City subway in chalk on black and white advertising space backgrounds. After achieving public recognition, he created large-scale works as murals.His later work often addressed political and social issues, especially homosexuality and AIDS, through his own iconography. Today Haring's work is divided between major private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Bass Museum in Miami; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Ludwig Museum in Cologne; and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. He also created a wide variety of public works, including the infirmary at Children's Village in Dobbs Ferry, New Yorkand the second-floor men's room at Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in Manhattan, which was later transformed into an office and is known as the Keith Haring Room. In January 2019, an exhibit called "Keith Haring New York" opened at New York Law School in the main building of its Tribeca campus.