Light Artist: James Turrell

*what is light? the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible; a source of illumination.

I personally define light into two categories; natural light and artificial light.  They are both quite different and produce very different affects.  

The light artist that I have selected is James Turrell. The quality of his work that is most special to me is the fact that he uses light and space so well.  It is a common occurrence in most of his pieces of work that the set up is a very dark space with a color being emphasized.  This color is creating various shapes through the use of pure light making it the primary focus in each of his photographs.

The artist I feel he compares the most to is Dan Flavin.  I think the photographs in which they take and their style of photography is very similar.  They both use a highly vibrant color and make white lighting within that color the dominant feature.  When I look at both of their work together it is hard for me to distinguish between the two of them.  The only thing they do not have in common that I noticed was that in some of Dan Flavin's photographs he uses a wide variety of colors and not just one.  This is different from James Turrell because he primarily sticks to one color in the majority of his photographs.  

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