Robert Indiana, born Robert Clark in 1928, was an influential American artist known for his iconic pop art creations. He gained worldwide recognition for his bold use of color, geometric shapes and text-based compositions. Indiana's most famous work is arguably his "LOVE" series, which features the word "LOVE" in bold capital letters arranged in a square, with the letter "O" at an angle. This image became an iconic symbol of the 1960s counterculture movement and has since been reproduced in various forms around the world. Indiana's fascination with language and symbolism extended beyond the word "LOVE" to encompass other words and phrases, often exploring themes of identity, American culture and the human condition. His contributions to the Pop Art movement left a lasting legacy and solidified his place as one of the most important American artists of the 20th century.
Robert Indiana (* September 13, 1928 in New Castle, Indiana; originally Robert Clark; † May 19, 2018 in Vinalhaven, Maine) was an American painter and a major representative of Pop Art and signal art.
Indiana became known for his striking sign paintings, which are among the most radical expressions of Pop Art. Just as simple as Indiana’s 1966 work LOVE with its letters L and O, including V and E – in the colors red, blue and green – appear his other works of numbers, letters and five-pointed stars. This simplicity, the compression to the essentials, borrowed from advertising, meant that his pictures could and did become a logo, a lettristic-emblematic pictorial figure.
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