Pop Art Movement in New York

One page “Choose a work of art or design that you consider to be significant. Imagine that the work had never been made. How would the world be worse off (or better off) without it?”.”. I consider Robert Indiana’s LOVE to be very significant and cannot imagine a world without it. The 1960s, Pop art movement in New York would have not had the same impulse without Robert Indiana’s LOVE and the world would be worse off without it. Abstract Expressionism, subconscious creation on large canvases, would have still been the only accepted art during this time if LOVE did not influence the American public with this new Pop Art. In 1958 Indiana begun to experimenting with LOVE, place the letters just right with the “LO” sitting on top of the “VE.” Then in 1965 the Museum of Modern Art put Indiana in charge to make a version of LOVE for a Christmas card. Putting LOVE in a simple composition in lively red contrasting a blue and green background was now the museum’s most treasured and popular item. He then proceeded to create an exhibition, called the “LOVE show,” that was so popular with the population, NBC televised it. LOVE then stuck the core of the 1960s everyone, especially hippies, were all about love. LOVE was everywhere from giant lot walls to paintings and in 1971 Indiana created the first public LOVE sculpture of many to come after. In conclusion I believe the Pop art movement in New York would have not have sparked off or be as popular with the people if not for Indiana’s LOVE. LOVE has reproduced numerous times in T-shirts, paintings, postcards and in the most famous postage stamps, which earned the US Postal Service millions. In a time of restricted art Indiana unlocked a new genre of art for New York and pushed Pop Art forward in the US, opening the door for more artists.

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Pop art had begun in the late 1950s in a rebellion against Abstract Expressionism, strokes of paint to