Keith Haring - Original Crack Down Poster

Offset lithographic poster 22 × 17 1/4 in | 55.9 × 43.8 cm Keith Haring, the street artist who famously declared that “art is for everybody,” started designing posters in 1982 while still a student at SVA in NYC. Haring was drawn to posters because they were a democratic medium and a great way to share his bright designs and graphic characters with the public on a large scale. Over the next 8 years, he created over 80 unique posters, from advertisements for Absolut and Lucky Strike to cultural announcements for the Montreux Jazz Festival and the World Breakdance Championship while also using posters as a means for social activism such as spreading awareness about the crack epidemic in NYC, apartheid in South Africa, nuclear disarmament, and the AIDS crisis - a disease Haring would eventually face.