The inic "LOVE" art peice by Robert Indiana is world famo, but few know was spired by a gay romance - and there was a "F**K" versn, too
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ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST INIC PIEC OF ART WAS SPIRED BY A GAY ROMANCE
LOVE had untercultural implitns as Ameri tensified s mpaign Vietnam: for many the antiwar movement, love and peace were terchangeable – and s universal votn had particular ronance g om a gay man the years before Stonewall. Robert Indiana, a pneerg Pop artist whose gay inty was often obliquely exprsed his patgs, sculptur, and prts, lived and worked on all five floors of the former dtrial buildg at 2 Sprg Street, on the rner of the Bowery, om 1965 until 1978. Art historian Robert Storr not that to be an openly gay man the 1950s and ’60s was practilly impossible whout donng a seri of guis.