ROBERT INDIANA "HEPTAGON MAQUETTE" COLLAGE, 1970Robert Indiana (1928 2018) was an essential figure of American Pop art, best known for his iconic masterpiece "LOVE", which remains one of the most famous and sought after artworks of the 20th century. His oeuvre consists of bold, simple subjects including numbers, symbols, or capitalized short words (i. e. EAT, HUG, LOVE) executed in vivid primary colors. He notably also incorporated both actual street signs or their aesthetic into his works.

engaging with feminist dialogue in subject matter and medium

“The Far Shore” has been hailed as an important feminist film in recent years

After his blockbuster retrospective at the AGO in 1982

Depending on the matting

While 2020 has been a trying and destabilizing year around the world

and lines in his artworks

simple yet bold forms

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Includes a copy of the colophon signed by "Ed Burtynsky" and "David Mirvish"

which follows him as he produces his series of large abstract paintings using squeegees (a nod to the tool sometimes used in his "blur" paintings)

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construction workers