Dan Flavin
Through the use of commercially manufactured fluorescent lamps, Dan Flavin created a body of work that radically transformed the experience of color, light, and space. Fluorescent light became the defining medium of his practice. By working within the constraints of his chosen industrial material—using only straight and circular lamps while …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind the American Minimalist Artist Dan Flavin (1/4/1933-29/11/1996), he exploited the possibilities of the most …
Dan Flavin used widely available fluorescent tube lights to radically alter and rearticulate the space shared by work and viewer while maintaining …
Beginning in 1963 with “the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi)”—a single gold fluorescent tube placed diagonally on a wall—Dan …
Dan Flavin was a pioneer of Minimal Art. He rose to fame in the 1960s with his work with industrially manufactured fluorescent …
Minimalism can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of …
Dan Flavin’s work is clean, industrially produced, and serially repeating. These qualities were developed in opposition to the gestural expressionist painting dominant …
Beginning in the 1960s, Dan Flavin made wall-mounted, floor-mounted, and site-specific sculptures and installations composed of intersecting and parallel lines of white …
Dan Flavin’s work is clean, industrially produced, and serially repeating. These qualities were developed in opposition to the gestural expressionist painting dominant …
Minimalism can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of …
Minimalism can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of …
After a brief stint at seminary and meteorological training in the military, Dan Flavin pursued his artistic studies in the late 1950s …
![Dan Flavin, untitled (to Lucie Rie, master potter) 1rrr [Detail], 1990, blue, green, yellow, and pink fluorescent light, 183 cm high, 61 cm deep, © Stephen Flavin / Artists Rights Society (ARS)-New York, Image Courtesy Rubin/Spangle Gallery](http://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/0004-332x200.jpg)
When Dan Flavin began collecting the work of Lucie Rie and Hans Coper in the 1980s, he undoubtedly recognized the achievements of …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind the American Minimalist Artist Dan Flavin (1/4/33-29/11/96). Few artists can boast having explored a …
