Light art

Uses of the term differ drastically in incongruence; definitions, if existing, vary in several aspects.

Thus, luminism[1] may also refer to light art in the above sense, its previous usage point to painterly styles: either as an other label for the Caravaggisti in the baroque, or 19th and 20th centuries, fundamentally impressionist schools.

Light Art is a fairly new construction, as a mirror translation from Dutch or German: Lichtkunst.

[8] "Prounenraum (Proun Room) (1923), by El Lissitzky, is considered by many art historians to be the first time an artist incorporated architectural lighting elements as a component integral to his work.

Constructivist Naum Gabo experimented with the transparent materiality light reflects on an object; his Linear Construction No.

[12] Marcel Duchamp's Hat Rack (1916 and 1964), hangs from the ceiling and casts a shadow against the wall.

An early example is the utilization of the majority of the searchlights of the German Air Force by Albert Speer for his Cathedral of Light, a feature of the Nazi Party rallies at Nuremberg between 1934 and 1938.

[14] Art critic Hilarie M. Sheets explains that "the interplay of dark and light has been a theme running from Greek and Roman sculpture to Renaissance painting to experimental film.

This was the same time period as that of Light and Space artists James Turrell and Robert Irwin in Los Angeles, on the opposite U.S. coast.

Many modern art museums include light sculptures and installations in their permanent and temporary collections.

This LED low energy movement dates back to 2009 and the Vivid Smart Light Festival in Sydney.

The foundations behind the ILAA also wish to put emphasis on sustainability and new technologies within the medium of light expression.