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Robert Indiana 13/9/1928 - 19/5/2018 was associated with the pop art movement...Famous for the "LOVE" print, first created for the Museum of Modern Art's Christmas card in 1965, it was the basis for his 1970 “LOVE Sculpture”...“The original premise that the word is an appropriated and usable element of art, just as Picasso and the Cubists made use of it at the beginning of the last century. In 2008, Robert Indiana created an image similar to LOVE (letters stacked two to a line, the letter “o” tilted on its side), but this time showcasing the word “HOPE” and donated all proceeds from the image to the Democratic National Committee for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
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