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Article: Taking aim 'LOVE' artist Robert Indiana returns to shock with patriotic 'Afghanistan'
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- February 23, 2002
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Robert Indiana, the celebrated artist and Maine resident, is
obsessed with love. His early career was launched into the mainstream
by the creation of a painting that stacked the letters of the word
"LOVE" in bold colors. The painting, which has transmogrified into
sculpture, jewelry, posters and a United States postal stamp, has
become one of the most recognizable icons of the 20th century.
The walls of Indiana's home in the former Odd Fellows hall on
Vinalhaven are covered with many of these variations of the "LOVE"
piece. Indiana has also written love poems. If you ask him if he has
been in love, he may squint his eyes puckishly and say: "Innumerable