The Weather project, Olafur Eliasson, 2003
Light becomes an artwork, sublimating its archetypal meaning.
Light painting, Pablo Picasso, 1949-1955
Fascinated by this new photographic technique, the artist used light to “paint” in the dark.
Phanteon, Agrippa, 27 b.C.
The Phanteon’s oculus was designed to mark the seasons and illuminate the emperor’s entrance at a precise time of the year.
Geodetic Dome, Buckminster Fuller, 1955
The architectural relationship with light is realised with the design of the first geodesic dome.
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