Blue Intensity

Dan Flavin sculpture

This is another of the incredibly striking Dan Flavin sculptures that I saw at the retrospective at LACMA (the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) earlier this month.

The sheer blueness of it was particularly striking, I have to say. It was intense. I left the colours from neighbouring pieces at the edges of the image, since I think this helped set the blue in your visual field before you then walk into the corridor and immerse yourself in the blue. I think that helped enhance the blue, but I’m not sure. It was interesting to note that the blue was nowhere near as powerful when starting at the […] Click to continue reading this post