Brancusi Via Flavin
Posted by Rob | Filed under Abstract, All Drawings
I took a group of Art Academy students to the Dan Flavin exhibition at the Hayward Gallery today. Dan Flavin is:
One of the most innovative figures in 20th-century art, Flavin used fluorescent light as his medium, adapting mass-produced, commercially-available materials into works of profound intensity and astounding beauty. Moving beyond the traditional realms of painting and sculpture, he became a key exponent of minimalism in the early 1960s, alongside artists such as Carl Andre, Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt.
One of his early pieces was in dedication to Constantine Brancusi and this drawing is my homage to Brancusi via Flavins. Brancusi was a Romanian artist who walked from Bucharest to Paris in 1904 and made work that moved towards a pure form. For me he is the sculptural equivalent to Picasso in the importance of changing the direction of art in the early 20th century. (Maistra - A drawing of Brancusi’s sculpture)
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