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Dan Flavin, Site-specific installation, 1996, Menil Collection
Dan Flavin, Site-specific installation, 1996, Menil Collection

Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933, Jamaica, New York – November 29, 1996, Riverhead, New York) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially-available fluorescent light fixtures. The Menil Collection, located in Houston, Texas, United States, is a museum that houses the private art collection of founders Jean and Dominique de Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jamaica is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City. Events 1777 - San Jose California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Riverhead New York may refer to Riverhead (town New York Riverhead (CDP New York, within the town of Riverhead The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design especially Visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features Fluorescence is a Luminescence that is mostly found as an

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Education

Flavin studied art history for a short time at the New School for Social Research, then moved on to Columbia University, where he studied painting and drawing. This is about the university in New York; for other uses see New School (disambiguation. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. [1]

Life and career

Flavin first conceived of using electric light as an art form in 1961,[2] the same year he married his first wife Sonja Severdija. [3] His first solo show was also held in 1961, at New York's Judson Gallery.

Early work

The first works to incorporate electric light were his "icons" series: eight colored square box-forms, constructed by the artist and his then-wife Sonja: these were fluorescent tubes with incandescent bulbs attached to their sides, and sometimes beveled edges. One of these icons was dedicated to Flavin's twin brother David, who died of polio in 1962. Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral Infectious disease spread from person to person primarily via [4] "

Mature work

The "Diagonal of Personal Ecstasy (the Diagonal of May 25, 1963)," completed in 1963, was Flavin's first mature work; it marks the beginning of the artist's exclusive use of fluorescent light as a medium. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In the decades that followed, he continued to use fluorescent structures to explore color, light and sculptural space, in works that filled gallery interiors. These structures cast both light and an eerily-colored shade, while taking a variety of forms, including "corner pieces", "barriers," and "corridors. " Most of Flavin's works were untitled, followed by a dedication in parenthesis to friends, artists, critics and others: the most famous of these include his "Monuments to V. Tatlin," an homage to the Russian constructivist sculptor Vladimir Tatlin, which he continued to work on between 1964 and 1990. Constructivism was an Artistic and architectural movement in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of " Art for art's sake " Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin ( Russian: Владимир Евграфович Татлин) ( – May 31, 1953) worked as a painter and architect

Flavin married his second wife, the artist Tracy Harris, in a ceremony at the Guggenheim Museum, in 1992. Tracy Harris (born August 24, 1958) is an American Artist. She was born in Lawton, Oklahoma and grew up in Dallas This article refers to the Guggenheim's landmark New York museum Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) [5]

Flavin died in 1996, in Riverhead, New York. Riverhead New York may refer to Riverhead (town New York Riverhead (CDP New York, within the town of Riverhead

Sculptures in collections[6][7]

United States

Arizona

California

Colorado

District of Columbia

Illinois

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Nebraska

New Hampshire

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Oregon

Texas

Washington

International

Canada

France

Scotland

United Kingdom

Estate Collection

References

  1. ^ Daniel Marzona and Uta Grosenick. Minimal Art," Taschen, 2004, p14
  2. ^ Daniel Marzona and Uta Grosenick, Minimal Art, Taschen, 2004, p50
  3. ^ diacenter.org accessed August 25, 2007
  4. ^ Tiffany Bell, diacenter.org accessed August 25, 2007
  5. ^ New York Times, June 26, 1992. Abstract available at nytimes.com
  6. ^ Govan and Bell, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, Yale University Press, 2004
  7. ^ diacenter.org accessed June 6, 2008

Bibliography

Govan, MIchael and Bell, Tiffany. "Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961-1996. " Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 2004.

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