Dan Flavin
Flavin was an artit who studied the neverending possibilities of fluorescent lighting. He took the normal usage of this particular sensation and brought it to the status of high art.
This artist grew up in Queens, New York and attended his first parochial school there. Years later, he was sent against his own will to a prep school for the seminary in Brooklyn, and later, on to the Air Force, where he trained as a meteorological technician, however, practicing art in most of his free time as well as collecting pieces of art and visiting museums. He eventually attended Columbia University where he studied art history.
Dan Flavin's first intersts in this light were evident from a poem that was written by him:
"flourescent
poles
shimmer
shiver
flick
out
dim
monuments
of
on
and
off
art."
In his breakthrough with flourescent light, he was the first to attempt to put it alone as a rare work of art, and it was successful. He was trying to challenge the history of art, and that he did. From this, he went on to create more masterpieces and challenging more "norms".
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