Haring opened the Pop Shop in New York City in 1986, marketing T-shirts, pin-on buttons and original prints. As the Encyclopedia Britannica notes, he was often assisted in these endeavors by scores of children, who shared with him his sense of play. He’s famous for his large outdoor murals, which he created in cities including Chicago and Atlanta as well as Berlin, Melbourne, Australia and Rio de Janiero.

Haring’s impulse was to bring art to the people.

As a graffiti artist, he went to the New York subways and put his stamp on the blank black advertising panels there, but he wasn’t into the “culture of the tag.” In 1982, Haring picked up a piece of chalk and joined their ranks. In New York at the end of the ‘70s, there was “a band of creative people who marked out their territory around SoHo and the East Village,” according to an essay for the 2005 exhibition in Milan, Italy, “The Keith Haring Show.” I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.”Īround this same time, he was making his mark in the world of graffiti art. In “Keith Haring Journals,” the artist talked about his newfound love of poetry with trademark enthusiasm and eloquence: “I have been enlightened.

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