Keith Haring’s Pop Shop V series was created in 1989 using a limited palette of black, pink, orange, blue and purple. The whimsical prints feature Haring’s signature thick black line style and bold color choices. The composition features two figures: one human and one dolphin. The human figure seems to want to join the dolphin while the dolphin seems to be making noises as the swimmer joins it, as illustrated by the short action lines coming from its mouth. The work is filled with motion and sound and Haring does an incredible job of communicating these non-visual concepts to us through his unique visual language he created.

Haring created multiple Pop Shop portfolios during the span of his career and derived the name from his original Pop Shop that he opened in a retail space in downtown New York in 1986. This shop was opened with the intention of making the artist’s work accessible to the general public, and this accessibility is an explicitly Pop sentiment.