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cavetocanvas:

greens crossing greens (to Piet Mondrian who lacked green) - Dan Flavin, 1966

From the Guggenheim:

Employing only commercial fluorescent lights in his work, Dan Flavin devised a radical new art form that circumvented the limits imposed by frames, pedestals, or other conventional means of display. His embrace of the unadorned fluorescent fixture as an aesthetic object placed him at the forefront of a generation of artists whose use of industrial materials, emphasis on elementary forms, and nonhierarchical relationships among component parts became the salient characteristics of Minimalism.

ZOMG! I requested him months ago after seeing so much of his work at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin because he never really got covered sufficiently in my classes… and completely missed the day devoted to him!  Time to go back to my photo collection and see if anything is worth sharing.  Dia:Beacon has a great collection of works and MoMA has one displayed in P&S II now.

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    new addition to the Guggenheim?

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    neat :D i’m kinda reminded of shinto gates.

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    ZOMG! I requested him months ago after seeing so much of his work at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin because he...

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    I did an essay on Flavin for VA this year. Though I’m not usually into such conceptual work, I really love all of his...

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