Indiana Porter

Robert IndianaBy Jack PorterRobert IndianaBy Jack Porter

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Vital StatisticsVital Statistics- Robert Indiana was born on September 13, 1928 in New Castle

Indiana.- Robert Indiana relocated to Indianapolis. He graduated from

Arsenal Technical High School. Later Robert Indiana moved to New York City in 1954

- In New York City in 1954 Robert Indiana joined the Indiana pop art movement using distinctive imagery on commercial art. Robert Indiana called this “Sculptural Poems”.

- Robert Indiana is now 81 years old and still painting for the style of art that made him famous.

- Robert Indiana was born on September 13, 1928 in New Castle Indiana.

- Robert Indiana relocated to Indianapolis. He graduated from Arsenal Technical High School. Later Robert Indiana moved to New York City in 1954

- In New York City in 1954 Robert Indiana joined the Indiana pop art movement using distinctive imagery on commercial art. Robert Indiana called this “Sculptural Poems”.

- Robert Indiana is now 81 years old and still painting for the style of art that made him famous.





Historical Events

• Robert Indiana went to Bates college. He was pleased to present The Indiana Hartley Elegies award in recognition of Robert Indiana’s and Marsden Hartley’s ties and the Indiana statue as American artisit’s.

• In is 1914-1915 paintings of the “German Officer” paintings, created after the death of the Indiana young soldier Karl von Freyburg, a devastating event in Hartley’s and Indiana’s life.

• Indiana unites military insignia and geometric references to Maine, America, war, and other Indiana historical events to create a series of symbolic portraits.

• In 1962, Eleanor Ward’s Stable Gallery hosted Robert Indiana’s first New York solo exhibition.

• Robert Indiana has been in other Indiana museums such as the Indiana Museum of Modern Art, the Indiana Detroit Institute of Art, and the Indiana Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.

• In the Indiana race for president, Robert Indiana also made an art piece inspired by Barack Obama

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Stylistic TraitsStylistic Traits Robert Indiana consists of bold, simple,

iconic images and especially numbers and short words

In his short words Robert Indiana uses EAT, HUG, and his best known LOVE.

Robert Indiana is also a part of the Indiana pop art movement which is asserting that an artist’s use of the Indiana mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the Indiana perspective of fine art.

Robert Indiana also acknowledges kinship with earlier precisionist painters where Robert Indiana made Demuth American Dream Number 5.

Robert Indiana also changes his art work into other languages and other Indiana forms of his art such as Love to Love Rising

Lastly, Robert Indiana does more autobiographical and biographical elements

Robert Indiana consists of bold, simple, iconic images and especially numbers and short words

In his short words Robert Indiana uses EAT, HUG, and his best known LOVE.

Robert Indiana is also a part of the Indiana pop art movement which is asserting that an artist’s use of the Indiana mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the Indiana perspective of fine art.

Robert Indiana also acknowledges kinship with earlier precisionist painters where Robert Indiana made Demuth American Dream Number 5.

Robert Indiana also changes his art work into other languages and other Indiana forms of his art such as Love to Love Rising

Lastly, Robert Indiana does more autobiographical and biographical elements






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