Haring – Best Bodies (Unity)

This is simple illustration of friendship; unity between two people. This is what I feel this image is highlighting. I love this image due to the fact of its simplicity. Even though the characters remind me of stick people with the same body form and no expression, the action of having one another’s arm around each other tells me that the two people are united in some way. Haring has also used marks coming off from around the characters heads, which highlight exclamation. Basically making the feeling we get from the image a lot stronger. The illustration achieves what is needed purely because of the bold shapes and vibrant contrasting colours. The colours are what make the image lively giving a positive sense of unity between the two people. Haring has used the method of less is more to his advantage by not confusing meaning or interpretation by not including irrelevant or extra detail that is not necessary.