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With Miracle Mile (2013) Robert Irwin (b. 1928) reconsiders the properties of light, material, and color. This site-specific work subtly plays with the architecture in which it is housed and respondseto both Wilshire Boulevard and Primal Palm Garden, an outdoor installation that Irwin created at LACMA in 2008.
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No UV Needed just about says it all when it comes to the fluorescent glow of this Hot Pink Nail Gel from L.A.Girl. Just sitting in the bottle, it looks like a tiny work of art — and I’m sure it looks great on your nails as well!
Photographed In My Local CVS.
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Alvin Loving (1935 – 2005) once described geometric shape as “a sort of mundane form that could be very, very dull unless a great deal was done with it.” For him, however, geometry ultimately became an arena in which to develop a dramatic color sensibility. Juxtaposing neon-bright pigments, in Septehedron 34 (1970) he created the illusion that the painting’s forms recede or advance relative to one another.
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Dan Flavin (1933 – 1996) began to use commercially available fluorescent light tubes in 1963. This work marries color and light, bringing them into three dimensions. In dialogue with the surrounding space, the vertical and horizontal tubes both illuminate and obscure the corner — a location not typically used for displaying art.
Continue reading Modern Art Monday: Dan Flavin, Untitled (to the “Innovator” of Wheeling Peachblow)
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Laser cut from fluorescent green and fluorescent red acrylic, the Cactus Garden acts a both a day and night lighting fixture. The sculptures offer a subtle glow when in light thanks to the fluorescent material from which they are created.
Continue reading Eye On Design: Fluorescent Cactus Garden By Nobel Truong