Painting has concentrated primarily on depicting natural light and the wave phenomena that are known from optics and other fields. It wasn’t until 1889 when Heinrich Hertz discovered in Karlsruhe »that electric waves travel in the same way as optical waves« (Max Planck, 1894) and at the same speed, that there the real and symbolic Continue Reading
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The Art of Light
Posted on October 9, 2009 by le_redacteur
This post was posted in Documentary Films
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Details About Thomas Wilfred
Posted on October 9, 2009 by le_redacteur
Thomas Wilfred
Danish-born Thomas Wilfred came to America as a singer of early music, and got involved with a group of Theosophists who wanted to build a color organ to demonstrate spiritual principles. Wilfred called his color organ the Clavilux, and named the artform of color-music projections “Lumia.” He stressed polymorphous, fluid streams of color slowly Continue Reading
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and was tagged with art, clavilux, finkelstein, lichtkunst, light, LUMIA, lumiere, thomas wilfred, VIDEO OUT, vlachos
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