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untitled (to Barnett Newman to commemorate his simple problem, red, yellow, and blue)
in untitled (to Henri Matisse) in which pink, yellow, blue, and green lights mix to produce an ambient white light. The work is dedicated to Henri Matisse, the radical colorist whom Flavin admired.

Primary colors also vary between pigment and light. For pigments the primaries are red, yellow, and blue, whereas for light they are red, blue, and green. (Green mixed with red makes yellow light). Flavin acknowledged this difference in greens crossing greens (to Piet Mondrian who lacked green), coyly dedicating a green light work to Mondrian—the Dutch modernist famous for his primary color palette. This work by Flavin (continue)
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