, and Kenny Sharf, and found a new home amongst the thriving art and heaving club scenes. He was revered for his desire to make art accessible for all, whether through his now-famouson New York’s train carriages, the protest posters he made and handed out at Aids rallies and anti-nuclear demonstrations, painting the body offor her electric performances, or his many public murals and artworks.
“Haring's father was a keen drawer and he taught Haring to draw from a really young age, and he encouraged him to use his own imagination. Haring was interested in Disney and Dr. Seuss, and so you see those sort of elements in his work. He was very interested in comics, which you can see in the black border he created around his drawings.”circa 1983“Haring wanted to speak to a diverse audience, so he started creating art on the subway in 1980, and continued for five years.
“At some point, people started cutting the drawings out of their frames or just taking the frames altogether, which went against Haring's idea behind it . So he stopped doing the subway drawings and a year later he opened his Pop Shop. The Pop Shop was a new iteration of creating art that was open to everyone, it was a shop where he was selling merchandise for very affordable prices, and so, again, this idea that everyone could have a piece of his art.
“He first painted the body of Grace Jones in 1984. He covered her in his marks and symbols, and that process and the end result were photographed by Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe. The photographs appeared inmagazine. But Haring collaborated with Grace Jones on quite a number of occasions, and one of them was for a performance at the Paradise Garage, as well as for her video for her 1986 single. In that you see Haring painting a skirt that she wears.
“He often worked with people from the community, and he worked with a lot of kids; he would draw the outline and the children would help fill it in” – Tamar Hemmes
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