Untitled (Dancing dog)
(1984)
- Medium
- metallic and enamel paint on composition board
- Measurements
- 166.0 × 86.5 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Accession Number
- 2015.285
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Jason Yeap OAM and Min Lee Wong through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2015
© Keith Haring Foundation
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Gallery 18
Level 3, NGV Australia - About this work
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The Hardware Club was a queer venue located at 43 Hardware Lane in Melbourne’s CBD in the 1980s. During his first and only trip to Melbourne in February 1984, Keith Haring made several visits to the club, dancing to disco and funk music into the early hours. During one of his visits, Haring spraypainted the panels on either side of the DJ booth with two of the most iconic motifs from his distinctive visual language: a dancing ‘television man’ and a ‘dancing dog’.
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art Animals Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- anthropomorphic creatures dancing (activity) dog (species) graffiti (casual notations) graffiti art outlines (linear form) simplicity (artistic concept)
- Movements
- Contemporary (style of art)