{"id":949,"date":"2022-08-10T00:05:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T00:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haringgallery.com\/?post_type=artworks&p=949"},"modified":"2023-06-01T23:46:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T23:46:25","slug":"andy-mouse-3","status":"publish","type":"artworks","link":"https:\/\/haringgallery.com\/artworks\/andy-mouse-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Mouse 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
Andy Mouse 3<\/em> is a 1986 screenprint on paper by Keith Haring<\/a>. Capturing the essence of pop art and street culture in the 1980s, the painting is a strikingly eccentric amalgamation of two cultural icons: the renowned artist and pop culture icon Andy Warhol<\/a> and the beloved Disney character, Mickey Mouse. The composition\u2019s vibrancy and dynamism highlights Haring’s signature style of bold lines, flat shapes, and bright colors.<\/p>\n In this artwork, Haring depicts Mickey Mouse as Warhol’s alter ego. Transformed from cute to cool, the friendly rodent-mascot is styled with Warhol’s trademark white hair and glasses, and placed smack-dab in the center of a bill as a fuzzy-eared embodiment of wealth and capitalism. Haring\u2019s signature neutral figures hold up the bill with surrounding gestural marks indicating a heaviness to the usually light dollar. Decoding Haring\u2019s hieroglyphic-inspired message in Andy Mouse 3<\/em> places a slight tonal heaviness in the artwork, too, that is suggestive of the lasting domination that Disney, Andy, and other like mainstream brands continue to have over the population\u2019s pocketbooks.<\/p>\n Beyond its pop culture references, Andy Mouse 3<\/em> also explores Haring’s engagement with political and social issues of the time. Haring was known for using his art as a means of activism, advocating for AIDS awareness, LGBTQ+ rights, and other progressive causes. The use of a dotted ground surface in his paintings, like the one depicted in Andy Mouse 3, often alluded to the HIV\/AIDS crisis and its constantly permeating effect on all areas of society. The sum of Andy Mouse 3\u2019s<\/em> parts act as a time capsule of the significant cultural and political climate of the 1980s, and can be read as an enduring commentary on the influence and commodification of pop culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andy Mouse 3 is a 1986 screenprint on paper by Keith Haring. Capturing the essence of pop art and street culture in the 1980s, the painting is a strikingly eccentric amalgamation of two cultural icons: the renowned artist and pop culture icon Andy Warhol and the beloved Disney character, Mickey Mouse. 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