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Robert Indiana (born asRobert Clark; September 13, 1928 – May 19, 2018) was anAmerican artist. He was known for being a part of thepop art movement. He was born inNew Castle, Indiana.
Indiana moved toNew York City in 1954 and joined the pop art movement. Indiana's work often has bold, simple,iconic images, especially numbers and short words like "EAT", "HUG", and "LOVE". Hissculpture in the lobby ofTaipei 101, called1-0 (2002, aluminum), uses multicolored numbers.
After theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks, Indiana made a series ofPeace Paintings, which were shown inNew York in 2004.
Indiana died on May 19, 2018 inVinalhaven,Maine ofrespiratory failure at the age of 89.[1]
Indiana's best known image is the wordlove in upper-case letters, arranged in a square with a tilted letterO. This image was first created for aChristmas card for theMuseum of Modern Art in1964. It was put on an eight-centUS Postal Servicepostage stamp in 1973, the first of their regular series of "love stamps."
Sculptures of the image can be found at many places in the United States:
Sculptures of the image can also be found at many places outside of the United States:
An Indiana sculpture showing the Hebrew word for love(ahava) is displayed at TheIsrael Museum inJerusalem,Israel.