Namuth, Jody J. Doyle und Bill Katz - 4 Portraits von Robert Indiana

amuth, Jody J. Doyle and Bill Katz, 4 Portraits by Robert Indiana, 1960 - 1997. 4 offset prints on stiff cardboard, 55.8 x 43 cm. Verso labeled with various texts about works by Robert Indiana. Condition: Good. Illustrations are part of the condition description. About The American Dream is an iconic screenprint portfolio by the American Pop Art artist Robert Indiana, published in 1997 in a limited edition of 395 copies. The work brings together 30 powerful prints, including six signed sheets, which visually condense Indiana's central themes such as love, identity, consumption, patriotism and American society. The stylistically characteristic, color-intensive compositions with typography, numbers and symbols make the portfolio a milestone of late Pop Art and a coveted collector's item on the international art market. Produced by the MFA Contemporary Atelier in California, it is additionally complemented by artist, publisher and museum proofs. Biography The painter, graphic artist and sculptor Robert Indiana is regarded as one of the most important representatives of Sign Art. Robert Indiana, born as Robert Clark, came into the world in 1928 in New Castle, Indiana. The boy is adopted shortly after birth by the Clark couple and spends his childhood near Indiana. From 1958 he calls himself Robert Indiana instead of Robert Clark. Indiana takes up a studio at Coenties Slip on the Lower East River. Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Jack Youngerman, Ann Wilson, Charles Hinman and Fred Mitchell also live here — these artists share a rejection of gestural abstract expressionism. Particularly Ellsworth Kelly greatly influences Robert Indiana (Robert Clark) along this path. The young artist soon paints his first works in the hard-edge style (1957). In 1960 Robert Indiana makes a forward-looking discovery: he finds stencils used to label shipping crates, and from them creates the stencil-like lettering as the leitmotif of his works. The characteristic "Sign Art" style of Robert Indiana emerges and soon also draws on other sources such as signage or jukeboxes. Thus, Robert Indiana also moves closer to Pop Art. In the 1960s Robert Indiana becomes enormously successful. In particular his "LOVE" motif becomes a true icon of the era and in 1970 is even translated into a monumental sculpture. Works by Robert Indiana can be seen in major international museums, such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne or the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Robert Indiana lived and worked on the island of Vinalhaven in Maine until his death in 2018.

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