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In 1977 Indiana conceived a new version of his iconic LOVE sculpture, AHAVA, using the Hebrew word for “love” in the same distinctive quadripartite composition that he had developed in the mid-1960s. The work embodies Indiana’s unique approach to sculptural form, translating the two-dimensional written word into a monumental sculpture ...
12 kwi 2024 · Robert Indiana. Polaroid of the artist in his studio at 25 Coenties Slip in New York making Flagellant(1963/1969) with LOVE Rising (The Black and White Love)(1968) in the background. Image courtesy of The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative and Star of Hope Foundation, Vinalhaven, Maine.
The universality of the subject, to which Indiana continued to return, is further evidenced by his translation of LOVE into AHAVA (Hebrew) and AMOR (Spanish). Screen-Invert Robert Indiana with William Katz in the artist's studio on Spring Street, New York, 1966.
31 gru 2020 · In 1977, artist Robert Indiana conceived a new version of his iconic LOVE sculpture, which he titled אהבה (ahava). It uses the four Hebrew letters that comprise the word for “love” in the same distinctive composition of the world-famous work of Pop Art.
13 lut 2017 · By 1977, Indiana started translating his LOVE design into other languages. His first translation, AHAVA (1977) means "love" in Hebrew. After being exhibited in Central Park, the piece was gifted to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
30 maj 2018 · LOVE in all its iterations—translated by the artist into Spanish and Hebrew for sculptures; painted into an unprintable four-letter word after a falling out with Ellsworth Kelly; or...
Indiana's work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like EAT and HUG. His best known image is the word LOVE in upper-case letters, arranged in a square with a tilted letter O.
