The LOVE Sculpture New York, New York

byHHerrera

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10 years ago

If you love art ,then you will have a ball New York City because there are hundreds of museums and art galleries to visit.

But if don't have much tme to spend at the museum you can still admire many awesome sculptures located at many corners of the Big Apple.

For instance: Try Isamu Noguchi's Cube, in front of the Marine Midland Building at 140 Broadway in the financial district,or the famous LOVE sculpture by Robert Indiana, on the corner of 6th Avenue and 55th Street in Manhattan shown above.

It was originally designed as a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964. It is now on 55th Street and 6th Avenue for tourists to enjoy.

As simple as this structure is, it is a work of art and has been duplicated in pop culture many times. Ray and I definitely had to take a picture in front of this as a keepsake for one of New York City’s many attractions.

Here is what a critic said about this extraordinary piece of art.:The composition of Robert Indiana’s unwaveringly iconic “LOVE” motif is simple enough: two pairs of letters stacked in a square, the L, the V and the E standing tall and crowded around an italicized O. But oh that O….

Rarely is a word’s meaning so cleverly embedded in its typography. Indiana’s O swoons, knocked off balance by a four-letter force evoking every kind of passion, be it sexual ecstasy or godly devotion. The image is as universal as the word itself. Tourists drape themselves over the monumental LOVE on Manhattan’s Sixth Avenue and lounge

Throughout his career, Indiana has merged the look of Pop with the austerity of minimalism and the wordplay of Concrete Poetry, influencing every text-based artist since, from Jenny Holzer to Glenn Ligon. But one couldn’tpossibly leave LOVE behind.