Robert Indiana (after) - Love
Signature: Not signed
Robert Indiana (after) , Love, n. d.
Lacquered plastic, 14. 5 x 6. 5 x 14 cm. Not signed.
Condition: Good condition, minimal rubbing in places and uneven paintwork due to the production process.
This Love sculpture is a replica of the famous and huge Love sculptures that can be found in all relevant collections worldwide. To this day, “LOVE” is one of the most frequently reproduced works of post-war art.
biography
The painter, graphic artist and sculptor Robert Indiana is considered the most important representative of signal art.
Robert Indiana, actually Robert Clark, was born in 1928 in New Castle, Indiana. The boy is adopted by the Clark couple immediately after birth and spends his childhood near Indiana. From 1958 Robert Clark called himself Robert Indiana.
Indiana moves into a studio on Coenties Slip on the Lower East River. Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Jack Youngerman, Ann Wilson, Charles Hinman and Fred Mitchell also live here - these artists feel united in their rejection of gestural Abstract Expressionism.
Ellsworth Kelly in particular is instrumental in encouraging Robert Indiana (Robert Clark) to take this path. The young artist soon painted his first pictures in the strict Hard Edge style (1957) .
In 1960, Robert Indiana made a groundbreaking discovery: he found stencils such as those used to label shipping crates and used them to create the stencil-like font as the leitmotif of his works. Robert Indiana's characteristic "signal art style" emerged and soon also applied to other sources such as signs or jukeboxes. In this way, Robert Indiana also approaches pop art.
In the 1960s, Robert Indiana became extremely successful. His “LOVE” motif in particular became a true icon of those years and was even translated into a monumental sculpture in 1970.
Works by Robert Indiana can be viewed in important international museums, such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne or the New York Museum of Modern Art. Robert Indiana lived and worked on the island of Vinalhaven until his death in 2018 Maine.
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Signature: Not signed
Robert Indiana (after) , Love, n. d.
Lacquered plastic, 14. 5 x 6. 5 x 14 cm. Not signed.
Condition: Good condition, minimal rubbing in places and uneven paintwork due to the production process.
This Love sculpture is a replica of the famous and huge Love sculptures that can be found in all relevant collections worldwide. To this day, “LOVE” is one of the most frequently reproduced works of post-war art.
biography
The painter, graphic artist and sculptor Robert Indiana is considered the most important representative of signal art.
Robert Indiana, actually Robert Clark, was born in 1928 in New Castle, Indiana. The boy is adopted by the Clark couple immediately after birth and spends his childhood near Indiana. From 1958 Robert Clark called himself Robert Indiana.
Indiana moves into a studio on Coenties Slip on the Lower East River. Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Jack Youngerman, Ann Wilson, Charles Hinman and Fred Mitchell also live here - these artists feel united in their rejection of gestural Abstract Expressionism.
Ellsworth Kelly in particular is instrumental in encouraging Robert Indiana (Robert Clark) to take this path. The young artist soon painted his first pictures in the strict Hard Edge style (1957) .
In 1960, Robert Indiana made a groundbreaking discovery: he found stencils such as those used to label shipping crates and used them to create the stencil-like font as the leitmotif of his works. Robert Indiana's characteristic "signal art style" emerged and soon also applied to other sources such as signs or jukeboxes. In this way, Robert Indiana also approaches pop art.
In the 1960s, Robert Indiana became extremely successful. His “LOVE” motif in particular became a true icon of those years and was even translated into a monumental sculpture in 1970.
Works by Robert Indiana can be viewed in important international museums, such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne or the New York Museum of Modern Art. Robert Indiana lived and worked on the island of Vinalhaven until his death in 2018 Maine.
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