LOVE sculpture in poly-chromed red and blue aluminum at the southeast corner of Sixth Avenue and 55th Street. Designed by ROBERT INDIANA (born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana), this sculpture became a symbol of peace in a time when the US was at war in Vietnam. The piece was first conceived when Indiana saw a banner that read "GOD is LOVE." He created a painting that says "LOVE is GOD" for an exhibition at a church. For the Museum of Modern Art, Indiana then created three small paintings of the word "LOVE" in red, blue and green for a Christmas card in 1965. Since then Indiana's LOVE design emerged as a cultural icon and has been widely used throughout the art world and the mass media, with or without the artist's consent. For Indiana, LOVE means having to say he's sorry for failing to register a copyright for this particular work.♥
Monday, February 12, 2007
LOVE
LOVE sculpture in poly-chromed red and blue aluminum at the southeast corner of Sixth Avenue and 55th Street. Designed by ROBERT INDIANA (born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana), this sculpture became a symbol of peace in a time when the US was at war in Vietnam. The piece was first conceived when Indiana saw a banner that read "GOD is LOVE." He created a painting that says "LOVE is GOD" for an exhibition at a church. For the Museum of Modern Art, Indiana then created three small paintings of the word "LOVE" in red, blue and green for a Christmas card in 1965. Since then Indiana's LOVE design emerged as a cultural icon and has been widely used throughout the art world and the mass media, with or without the artist's consent. For Indiana, LOVE means having to say he's sorry for failing to register a copyright for this particular work.♥
that is such an interesting sculpture on the street..but poor indiana huh...
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