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LOVE. 1966. Oil on canvas. 24 × 24 in. (61 × 61 cm) Photo: Courtesy of Sotheby’s, New York; Artwork: © Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Installation view of Robert Indiana: Letters, Words and Numbers , C&M Arts, New York, February 13–March 22, 2003, featuring a 72-inch version of Indiana’s red/blue LOVE (1967).
Sep 26, 2013 · 1966. Oil on canvas. 71 7/8 × 71 7/8 in. (182.6 × 182.6 cm) Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. James E. Roberts Fund. Photo: Courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; Artwork: © Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
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Jan 29, 2012 · LOVE Canvas: In the Style of Robert Indiana. So I have been meaning to come up with a semi sculptural piece as a nod to Robert Indiana. With Valentine's Day on the horizon I got my chance. All of us have seen this "LOVE" arrangement at some time or another but do not realize it's Pop Art origins.
- The Early Renditions Were Starkly different.
- Loveas We Know It Began as A Christmas Card.
- Its Inspirations Were Deeply Personal.
- The Christmas Card's Success Led to A Whole Exhibition.
- Lovespread quickly.
- The Christmas Card Led to A Valentine's Day Stamp.
- Love Emerged as A Literal Sign of The times.
- Even as The Piece Became An Icon, Fame Eluded Indiana ...
- And Love Didn't Make Him Rich.
- All The Same, Lovebranded Indiana A sell-out.
In 1961, Indiana painted a canvas in different shades of red that said "LOVE" on the bottom and had four stars, which he would credit as giving him the idea to stack the letters. But the more immediate ancestor came in 1964, when Indiana pulled inspiration from his religious roots to create Love is God. The grey-scale diamond-shaped painting took i...
Through his exploration in text art, Indiana created his first LOVE for personal Christmas cards in 1964. Perhaps he sent one to the folks at the Museum of Modern Art. The following year, the museum commissioned him to design a similar Christmas card to be sold in its gift shop. The LOVE card quickly became one of the store’s most popular items.
In the wake of his father's death, Indiana paid tribute to his departed parent with the colors of his 1966 painting, LOVE. The red and green were meant to recall the sign of the Phillips 66 where his father toiled during the artist's hardscrabble childhood when he was still known as Robert Clark. The blue represented the skyof his home state and ch...
In 1966, Indiana held the LOVEShow at the Stable Gallery, which boasted paintings, drawings, and small sculptures that all played up on the word and its rendering in the bestselling card. The work spoke to the peace and love generation, so the show drew national media attention, including coverage on NBC.
Getty Images Indiana created bigger LOVE paintings, and in 1970 built the first of many large LOVE sculptures for public display. The monumental statue and its maker went on a short tour that stopped at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Boston City Hall, and Manhattan's Central Park. The 12-foot by 12-foot by 6-foot structure drew such crowds that In...
Indiana oversaw the design for the United States Postal Service LOVE stamp that was first printed in 1973. With more than 300 million copies sold, it became one of the best-selling commemorative stamps of all time (although technically it’s a special stamp, not a commemorative), spreading LOVEaround the globe with each new printing.
Soon, LOVE was everywhere. The Broadway cast of Hair posed before a LOVE statue for a promotional shoot. The already iconic text treatment was being reproduced on cufflinks, rings, album and book covers, all tapping into the counterculture zeitgeist of the '60s and '70s. As Hélène Depotte explained in Robert Indiana: Retrospective 39, "It has left ...
In 1976, he admitted, "Everybody knows my LOVE, but they don't have the slightest idea what I look like. I'm practically anonymous."
Getty Images Or at least not as rich as you'd think. Indiana failed to copyright his LOVEdesign, so opportunistic copycats began springing up left and right, churning out cheap aluminum paperweights and other baubles that would never earn their true designer a dime. Later, he struggled to gain a patent because trademark courts refused to grant a co...
In the eyes of Indiana’s artistic peers, designing a MoMA Christmas card was one thing. But when Indiana opened "Love Show," it sent a signal that he considered his commercial work part of his artistic career, which rankled the art world’s elite. They saw Indiana's small LOVE sculptures not as a way to make art more accessible to cash-strapped woul...
Title: LOVE. Creator: Robert Indiana. Date Created: 1966. Rights: Indianapolis Museum of Art, James E. Roberts Fund, 67.8 © 2016 Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New...
Love is a pop art image by American artist Robert Indiana. It consists of the letters L and O over the letters V and E in bold Didone type; the O is slanted sideways so that its oblong negative space creates a line leading to the V.
