AntonHaas
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Seen, real name Richard Mirando, was born in 1961 in the Bronx where he grew up and still lives today. Very young, he is already a prodigy in plastic art. He was offered his first airbrush at the age of 11. Two years later, he made decorative paintings for his uncle, owner of a car garage. He then customized his first vehicles.
The graffiti movement was at that time in full emergence. Richard is captivated by the rolling painted subway trains that park in the Lexington Avenue depot on line 6, just behind his uncle's garage. He entered the depot on a Saturday afternoon in 1973 and made his first "piece". He chooses the nickname "Seen". The sequence of the 2 "E" pleases him and the meaning corresponds to him. Doing graffiti becomes for him the way to realize his desire to be seen by as many people as possible.
His first painting is a revelation. From a simple spectator, he becomes an actor of the young movement. The metro becomes its preferred medium. He then chained the actions and went so far as to paint entire cars (Whole cars) which would forever mark the spirit of the new-yorkers. His name and his art are conveyed throughout the city by the trains borrowed every day by hundreds of thousands of people. His style unique, his creativity and tenacity established him as a leader of the New York underground graffiti movement of the 80s.
