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Article: Flavin's delights of color; Fluorescence at gallery.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2004
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Byline: Joanna Shaw-Eagle, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"I'll never see light again in the same way," comments a visitor viewing Dan Flavin's fluorescent light sculptures and environments at the National Gallery of Art. Like others, she's mesmerized by the artist's washes of vibrating light and colors.
"Dan Flavin: A Retrospective," is - surprisingly - the first major exhibition of the artist's seminal work.
Mr. Flavin is credited with creating two of the major art movements of the late 20th century. The first was the largely misunderstood "minimal," or "reductive," arts movement of the 1960s, which rejected traditional painting and sculpture as ...