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Robert Indianawas an American artist associated with the pop art movement.
His iconic image LOVE was first created in 1964 in the form of a card which he sent to several friends and acquaintances in the art world.
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Robert Indianawas an American artist associated with the pop art movement.
His iconic image LOVE was first created in 1964 in the form of a card which he sent to several friends and acquaintances in the art world. In 1965, Robert Indiana was invited to propose an artwork to be featured on the Museum of Modern Art’s annual Christmas card. Indiana submitted several 12″ square oil on canvas variations based on his LOVE image. The museum selected the most intense color combination in red, blue, and green. It became one of the most popular cards the museum has ever offered. Indiana continued to develop his LOVE series, and in 1966, worked with Marian Goodman of Multiples, Inc. to make his first LOVE sculpture in aluminum. In 1970, Indiana completed his first monumental LOVE sculpture in Cor-Ten steel which is in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
In addition to being a painter and sculptor, Indiana made posters and prints and also designed stage sets and costumes for the Virgil Thompson and Gertrude Stein opera The Mother of Us All. Indiana’s artwork has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the world and is included in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
7 Quotes by Robert Indiana
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Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.
Robert IndianaAmerican artist (1928-2018)
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I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.
Robert IndianaAmerican artist (1928-2018)
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I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
Robert IndianaAmerican artist (1928-2018)
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Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
Robert IndianaAmerican artist (1928-2018)
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I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert IndianaAmerican artist (1928-2018)
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I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I’ve done many.
Robert IndianaAmerican artist (1928-2018)
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I’ve always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.
Robert IndianaAmerican artist (1928-2018)