8, Robert Indiana, 1962
Robert Indiana의 초상Robert Indiana미국, 1928–2018

8

1962 · Painting · 33.7 × 33.7 cm

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Robert Indiana painted 8 in 1962. The Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis holds the painting. A bold, simply presented numeral uses colour to turn an everyday sign into a painted image. Indiana called himself a sign painter early in his career, reflecting a serious interest in letters and numbers as elements of mass culture. His approach joined the imagery of small-town America with fine-art design. He described these combinations as verbal-visual forms, taking familiar signs out of their usual surroundings and giving them a new visual context.

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Robert Indiana’s painting of the number eight is colorful, bold, and simple. It is not difficult to believe that, at the start of his artistic career, he referred to himself as a sign painter. This wasn’t false modesty—he really was interested in the potential of letters and numbers to be transformed with color and design into signposts of mass culture. Evoking the signs of our daily lives, Indiana fused images from small-town America with the visual language of high art. The result was what he called “verbal-visual” forms. Taken from their original contexts, Indiana’s signs expose the power of symbols in our quest for meaning.

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  1. early 1960s

    MoMA buys “The American Dream, I”

    Alfred H. Barr Jr. acquires the painting The American Dream, I for the Museum of Modern Art; after this the artist’s career takes off.

  2. 1962

    First solo exhibition in New York

    Eleanor Ward’s Stable Gallery hosts his first solo exhibition in New York.

  3. 1963

    Warhol films “Bob Indiana Etc.”

    Andy Warhol makes a portrait of him, the four-minute silent film Bob Indiana Etc., in which Wynn Chamberlain and John Giorno also appear.

  4. 1964

    Break-up with Kelly and the birth of LOVE

    After parting from Ellsworth Kelly, Indiana reworks an earlier, cruder version of the piece (according to the art historian Susan Elizabeth Ryan, in 1964 it was a far more explicit four-letter word beginning with F, its second letter, a U, tilted to the right) into the famous stacked LOVE with its tilted O, and sends the first cards to friends and acquaintances in the art world. Its red, blue and green are thought to nod to Kelly’s colours, and the relationship was not made public until 2013.

  5. 1964

    Star of Warhol’s film “Eat”

    He plays the lead in Andy Warhol’s 45-minute film Eat, in which he eats a mushroom.

  6. 1964

    Moves to Spring Street and the Bowery

    He leaves Coenties Slip for a five-storey building at Spring Street and the Bowery.

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