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Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. Early life and career. Daniel Nicholas Flavin Jr. was born in Jamaica, New York, of Irish Catholic descent, and was sent to Catholic schools. [1] .
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Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. In 1956, Flavin briefly attended the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts and studied art under Albert Urban.
Apr 29, 2024 · Dan Flavin was an American artist whose installations featuring fluorescent lighting tubes in geometric arrays emit a rich ambient monochrome or multicoloured light that subtly reshapes the interior spaces in which they are displayed, creating intense visual sensations for the viewer.
Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.
Dan Flavin. From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi)—a single gold fluorescent lamp installed diagonally on a wall—until his death in 1996, Dan Flavin (b. produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially available fluorescent lamps to create installations (or ...
American minimalist artist Dan Flavin (1933-1996) dedicated most of his artistic career to pursuing the artistic possibilities of fluorescent light.
Nov 29, 1996 · Summary of Dan Flavin. Few artists can boast having explored a single medium, and an unusual one at that, as tenaciously and consistently as Dan Flavin with his signature fluorescent light tubes. Classified within the Minimalist framework, Flavin saw himself as vehemently "Maximalist."
Dan Flavin born 1933 [- 1996] American artist who has worked mainly with fluorescent light. Born in New York. Served in the meteorological branch of the US Air Force and then at the National Weather Analysis Center.
Introduction. One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find. —Dan Flavin, 1987. For more than three decades, Dan Flavin (1933-1996) vigorously pursued the artistic possibilities of fluorescent light.
Nov 7, 1999 · Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light. Past Exhibition November 7, 1999–February 13, 2000. At the forefront of a generation of artists working with new materials in the 1960s, Dan Flavin was recognized for his pioneering use of light and color divorced from traditional artistic contexts.
