Robert Indiana
For Friendship, 1990
Robert Indiana, the Pop artist most known for his “LOVE” series, regarded the American Modernist …
Robert Indiana (1928-2018) had a fascination with the life and work of Marsden Hartley (1877-1943). …
One of the central figures of the Pop Art movement, Robert Indiana takes his inspiration from commercial signs, claiming: “There are more signs than trees in America. There are more signs than leaves. So I think of myself as a painter of American landscape.” In his paintings, sculptures, and prints, he mimics and re-arranges the words and numbers of a myriad of signs, including the Phillips 66 gas station logo and the “Yield” traffic sign. He is most famous for his “LOVE” paintings and sculptures, first produced in the 1960s. Creating a block out of the word—with the “L” and the “O” set atop the “V” and the “E”—Indiana has effectively inserted his own sign into the mix.
Robert Indiana, the Pop artist most known for his “LOVE” series, regarded the American Modernist Marsden Hartley as his artistic hero. Indiana’s obsession with Hartley began when he discovered that the artist once spent a summer painting in Vinalhaven, Maine, a remote town where Indiana lived for over 30 years. …
Robert Indiana (1928-2018) had a fascination with the life and work of Marsden Hartley (1877-1943). They had never met. Hartley had a connection to Maine (he was born there in 1877, and summered on Vinylhaven in 1938. Marsden Hartley's lifestyle and association with Gertude Stein's avant- garde circle in …
One of the central figures of the Pop Art movement, Robert Indiana takes his inspiration from commercial signs, claiming: “There are more signs than trees in America. There are more signs than leaves. So I think of myself as a painter of American landscape.” In his paintings, sculptures, and prints, he mimics and re-arranges the words and numbers of a myriad of signs, including the Phillips 66 gas station logo and the “Yield” traffic sign. He is most famous for his “LOVE” paintings and sculptures, first produced in the 1960s. Creating a block out of the word—with the “L” and the “O” set atop the “V” and the “E”—Indiana has effectively inserted his own sign into the mix.
