Picture "The American Dream" (1997), Portfolio
Picture "The American Dream" (1997), Portfolio
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limited, 395 copies | numbered | signed | book with colour serigraphs on paper | size 57 x 44 cm
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Picture "The American Dream" (1997), Portfolio
Complete portfolio with 30 colour serigraphs!
Regarding his edition "The idea of the first Dream happened very early on. It’s a pivotal canvas and a crucial one to me. It changed the entire course of my life, and forms a bridge with my earlier work. My paintings now tend to be very bright and high-coloured. The Dream is still dark, and full of the blackness of the paintings I did when I was very depressed on my arrival in New York. It’s a comment on the superficiality of American life; its images are taken from pinball machines and the neon glare and the road signs of America. When I did that painting, I had no idea its theme would occupy most of my life."
Book of colour serigraphs, 1997. 395 copies on paper. Complete portfolio with 30 colour serigraphs, 6 of which are numbered, signed and laid in. With original certificate of authenticity from Marco Fine Arts Studio. Book: 57 x 44 cm. In leather binding and with original cardboard box.
About Robert Indiana
1928-2018
The Pop Art legend Robert Indiana was born in New Castle/Indiana. Since 1945, he lived in New York. He worked together with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Roy Lichtenstein. His sculpture LOVE made him world famous.
With simple stencils intended for labelling transport crates, Robert Indiana began his striking drawing images, which became characteristic of the artist's work through expressive words and bright colours.
LOVE became Indiana's artistic theme in 1966 - sculptures in marble, steel, and aluminium, screenprints, posters, tapestries, and even a LOVE stamp commissioned by the US government in 1973 followed. The typography of the work, with its tilted O, is one of the most reproduced works of post-war art and was even placed in red paint on the Berlin Wall by Indiana in 1991, in conjunction with the word "WALL".
His signature design devices were emblems, letters, and numbers - signs with a bold symbolic feel. Indiana's works are sold for $ 400,000 and more. They are central components of major modernist collections worldwide, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne and many others. In Indianapolis, an entire museum is dedicated to his works.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.