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  Robert Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Indiana (born September 13, 1928) is an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement.
Indiana was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana.
Indiana moved to New York City in 1954 and joined the pop art movement, using distinctive imagery drawing on commercial art approaches blended with existentialism, that gradually moved toward what Indiana calls "sculptural poems".
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 Robert Indiana Online
Robert Indiana in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Robert Indiana at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Turman Gallery at Indiana State University
Robert Indiana copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
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 Robert Indiana
Indiana was born in 1928 at New Castle, Indiana, as Robert Clark.
Indiana's works all speak to the vital forces that have shaped American culture in the late half of the 20th century: personal and national identity, political and social upheaval and stasis, the rise of consumer culture, and the pressures of history.
Indiana's process of reconstructing and redefining the American Dream has taken many forms: his political paintings, like The Confederacy: Alabama (1965); his literary paintings, like The Calumet (1961); and his autoportraits and investigations of celebrity and identity, like The Metamorphosis of Norma Jean Mortenson (1963-1967).
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 CBS News | Artist Trapped By 'Love' | October 24, 2004 14:11:08
Robert Clark decided he had to do something to be noticed, so he called himself Robert Indiana after his home state.
Robert Indiana works in a building overlooking the water that was in turn a sail maker's loft and a theater.
As reclusive as he is, the very fact that Robert Indiana is showing his work again is a sign he doesn't want his epitaph to read, "The most famous artist you didn't know you knew," even though his most famous image has taken on a life of its own.
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 Love by Robert Indiana
Shortly after, Indiana was commissioned to design a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art, for which he made three small paintings of the word love in red, blue and green.
Robert Indiana, originally Robert Clark, was a seminal figure in the pop art movement.
Indiana is a celebrated artist whose realist approach, (as coined by the Sidney Janis Gallery, New York), helped define a generation of art and artists.
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 SWAP | Robert Indiana Biographical Information
While Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark in 1928 in New Castle Indiana) is characteristically categorized as a Pop artist, some of his methods set him apart from other artists in the movement.
Viewers might see the intimacy of eating and its central role in family, community, and romantic rituals or they might understand the negative aspects of eating in a society where high-fat, sugar-rich diets are the norm.
By using block letters in bold, bright colors and dividing the word in half, he presents "love" in an unfamiliar way, thus asking the viewer what this familiar term means personally.
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 Robert Indiana - Biography
Born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana, in 1928, he adopted the name of his native state as a pseudonymous surname early in his career.
Indiana studied first at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York.
The American dream has been a recurring theme in Indiana's work, and he has used it to both celebrate and criticize the national way of life.
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 Indiana, Robert on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Robert Indiana was born in 1928 at New Castle, Indiana, as Robert Clark.
Robert KENNEDY giving a speech with his wife, Ethel, during his 1968 presidential campaign.
Robert KENNEDY greeting a crowd during his 1968 presidential campaign.
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 Indiana Governor Robert D. Orr
Robert Orr, Indiana's 45th governor, made education and economic development the cornerstones of his administration.
In 1972, Robert Orr was elected lieutenant governor and served two terms.
He holds honorary doctorates from Indiana University, University of Evansville, University of Southern Indiana, Hanover College, Butler University, Indiana State University, and Vincennes University.
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 Robert Indiana Oral History Interview Conducted by Richard Brown Baker for the Archives of American Art, 1963   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I am in the studio of Robert Indiana, a young painter whose fame, I should imagine, is only two years old, perhaps three years old.
He said, "The forms of Robert Indiana derive from slot machines, pin-wheels and amusement park art but are transformed in his hands to extremely simple geometric and verbal statements.
Indiana has had his thirty-fifth birthday since we talked last and he is also celebrating, you might say, the publication of - I think you told me it's the first magazine reproduction in color of one of your works.
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 Robert Indiana --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Robert Clark After studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, he settled in New York City and became a leading exponent of Pop art.
U.S. editor, diplomat, and poet Robert Underwood Johnson was sometimes referred to as the unofficial poet laureate of the United States, owing to the frequency with which he wrote works to commemorate notable persons and occasions.
Robert Owen was born in Newton, Wales, on May 14, 1771.
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 Robert Indiana Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
The Figure Five 1963 Robert Indiana oil on canvas unframed: 60 x 50 in.
Love and the American Dream: The Art of Robert Indiana is the first exhibition to explore the two c...
Robert Indiana Robert Indiana Born in 1928 at New Castle, Indiana, as Robert Clark.
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 Robert Indiana (1928 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Robert Indiana, American, Born in 1928 American Dream, from the portfolio of ten prints Decade
Robert Batty, The Rostrappe, plate 12 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut.
Robert Batty, Wernigerode, plate 17 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut.
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 The Art Collectors Program - Robert Indiana, Hirshorn Opening, 1974
New Castle, Indiana, 1928) is a painter, printmaker and sculptor, known as a major contributor to the Pop Art movement in the United States.
Originally born Robert Clark, Indiana later took the name of his home state.
Indiana is best known for his 1960s DIE and LOVE art series.
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 Indiana
Indiana, city, United States - Indiana, industrial borough (1990 pop.
Robert Indiana - Indiana, Robert, 1928–, American artist, b.
Indiana, state, United States - Indiana, midwestern state in the N central United States.
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 Love and the American Dream: The Art of Robert Indiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Although Robert Indiana came to prominence during the 1960s as a Pop artist, his concerns have always differed greatly from those of his contemporaries.
The painting was donated to the Portland Museum of Art by Todd R. Brassner in memory of Doug Rosen, a close friend of Indiana' s and Long-time Vinalhaven resident who passed away in 1998.
Love is also part of the artist's rethinking of the American Dream, but because of its crucial importance in Indiana's career, it comprises a separate section of the exhibition and catalogue.
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 WWW Pop Art: Robert Indiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Born in 1928 at New Castle, Indiana, as Robert Clark.
Between 1945 and 1948 he studied at art schools in Indianapolis and Utica, and from 1949 to 1953 at the Chicago Art Institute School and the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine.
The brash directness of these works stemmed from their symmetrical arrangements of color and form.
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 Robert Indiana artist and art...the-artists.org
Robert Indiana is, by his own admission, a painter of signs.
Personal data and representives, education, signature, exhibition history, auction results and upcoming auctions of Robert Indiana.
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI: A group of rarely seen photographs by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki will be on view at Anton Kern Gallery; Painting Flower, as well as 101 Images Dedicated to Robert Frank and other works selected from the Diaries.
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 Robert Indiana
Robert Creeley - Creeley, Robert, 1926–2005, American poet, b.
Art purchase indecision confounds Indiana fans ; No matter what Maine lawmakers decide, `First State' and other pieces by Robert Indiana will hang in the Capitol - at least temporarily.
Seaway presents Robert J. Lewis Pacesetter Award to Ports of Indiana Burns Harbor.
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 Robert Indiana's Love Sign Interpreted - Art Appreciation
Robert Indiana was quoted as calling it "Instant art" in Art News.
It may surprise you that he intended the LOVE sign to mean "God’s Love." When he was young, he attended a Christian Scientist church and the inscription he remembers in the church was "God is Love." Indiana considers himself a painter of signs.
So, you may interpret the LOVE sign as you will, romantic or spiritual, but always remember the decade it represented and how Robert Indiana’s message still applies today.
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 Robert Indiana [1928] - Featured Artist on Artfact.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1949–53), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (summer 1953) and Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art (1953–4), before settling in New York in 1954.
Indiana called himself a ‘sign painter’ to suggest the humble origins of his artistic activity in the American work ethic and to indicate his fascination with the use of words in signs.
Joining his interest in Americana with the formal and signifying elements of signs, he visualized the superficial and illusory American Dream in paintings characterized by flat bright colours and clearly defined contours influenced by the hard-edge paintings by friends such as Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Youngerman (b 1926).
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 Indiana
Ecology and management of the Indiana bat in Michigan.
Bats of the naval surface warfare center at Crane, Indiana.
Wintering populations of bats in Indiana, with emphasis on the endangered Indiana myotis, myotis sodalis.
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 Art on Art on Art: The Figure Five -- William Carlos Williams, Charles Demuth and Robert Indiana
Among the rain / and lights / I saw the figure 5 / in gold...
Painter, poet Robert Indiana picked up the thread 35 years later with his painting
Inspired by Charles Demuth's painting, Robert Indiana completes the circle of influence as a poet in his own right.
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 AllRefer.com - Indiana, Robert (American Art) - Encyclopedia
Indiana, Robert[in´´dE-an´u] Pronunciation Key, 1928–, American artist, b.
A leading figure in the pop art movement of the 1960s, he has specialized in making signs in various media, inspired by billboards and posters in the American landscape.
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 Robert Indiana 1946 Tech Grad
Born in 1928 at New Castle, Indiana, as Robert Clark, between 1945 and 1948 he studied at art schools in Indianapolis and Utica, NY, from 1949 to 1953 at the Chicago Art Institute School and the Skowhgan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine.
In 1953 and 1954 he studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and London University, after which he settled in New York where he took up contact with the painters Kelly, Smith and Youngerman.
* from Robert Indiana, 13, 173, 207, Harry N. Abrams, 1990.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Indiana, Robert @ HighBeam Research
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Indiana, Robert @ HighBeam Research
INDIANA, ROBERT [Indiana, Robert], 1928-, American artist, b.
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 Amazon.com: We Wish You an Eerie Christmas (Eerie, Indiana): Books: Robert James   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 Book Mountain Art Shelf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Kwan Kim-Gaul with Emile Bernard, Barnett D. Conlon, & Robert Vrinat.
Book: VG corners bumped, name in front paste down.
Book: VG- remaindered DJ: G tears at extremeties This comprehensive volume contains over 1100 entries including Audubon, Bierstadt, Mary Cassat, Robert Indiana, Remington, Frank Lloyd Wright, Grant Wood (American Gothic) and Wyeth, et al.
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