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In 1949 Pablo Picasso was visited by Gjon Mili, a known photographer and lighting innovator, who introduced him to some of his photographs of ice skaters with lights attached to their skates. Immediately Picasso started drawing in the air with a small flashlight in a dark room. This series of photos became known as Picasso's "light drawings". The most famous of work of this collection is probably "Pablo Picasso's Flashlight Centaur". These photographs were shot in a dark rooms with a long shutter opening and rapid movements of the source of light in front of the camera.


 

Pablo Picasso's Flashlight Centaur

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Life Gallery of Picasso's Light Drawings 

For more than three decades, Dan Flavin (1933-1996) vigorously pursued the artistic possibilities of fluorescent light. The artist radically limited his materials to commercially available fluorescent tubing in standard sizes, shapes, and colors, extracting banal hardware from its utilitarian context and inserting it into the world of high art. The resulting body of work at once possesses a straightforward simplicity and a deep sophistication.