Untitled

To assess the importance of Keith Harings Untitled, 1982, one need go no further than the recognition that the artist never sold this work during his lifetime. The visual power of the image speaks for itself. In it, Haring transforms an iconic symbol of American mainstream popular culture, Mickey Mouse, into a psychodelic counter-cultural symbol of of over-stimulated tension bordering on anxiety. Haring's images of Mickey Mouse rank among the rarest and most successful works of the artist's tragically short carreer.