Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop.
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Ex… - Robert Indiana
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Ex…
- Robert Indiana
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees. - Robert Indiana
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. - Robert Indiana
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive! - Robert Indiana
Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!
I had no idea LOVE would catch on the way it did. Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the Love generation and hippies. It was a… - Robert Indiana
I had no idea LOVE would catch on the way it did. Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the Love generation and hippies. It was a…
Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril. - Robert Indiana
Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those house… - Robert Indiana
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those house…
I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have … - Robert Indiana
I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have …
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. - Robert Indiana
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
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