![]() ![]() In the decades that followed, he continued to use fluorescent structures to explore color, light and sculptural space, in works that filled gallery interiors. Thereafter his work consisted of various configurations of single or multiple tubes, executed in a palette of hues including red, blue, green, pink, yellow, ultraviolet, and four different whites. The Diagonal of Personal Ecstasy (the Diagonal of May 25, 1963), a yellow fluorescent tube placed on a wall at a 45-degree angle from the floor and completed in 1963, was Flavin’s first mature work. In the summer of 1961, while working as a guard at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Flavin started to make sketches for the first sculptures that incorporated electric lights, his ‘Icons’ series, consisting of eight colored shallow, boxlike square constructions made from various materials such as wood, formica, or masonite, and with incandescent and fluorescent bulbs attached to their sides. Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. ![]()
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