基因戴维斯(Gene Davis)高清作品《太阳奏鸣曲》

作品名：太阳奏鸣曲

艺术家：基因戴维斯

年代：1983、威廉斯堡、Virginia、美国

风格：色域绘画,欧普艺术

类型：装置

美国弗吉尼亚州威廉斯堡的威廉和玛丽学院莫斯卡莱尔艺术博物馆外墙。《太阳奏鸣曲》的名称既指夜间照明的色彩的节奏图案，又指墙在白天作为太阳能收集系统的功能。这种美感与功能的非凡结合的起源可追溯到上世纪80年代初，当时博物馆正在制定计划。博物馆的建筑师卡尔顿·阿伯特（Carlton Abbott）建议对太阳能墙管进行着色，这促使华盛顿色彩学院的著名画家戴维斯（Davis）将太阳能墙改造成一件艺术品。戴维斯是这个委员会的自然选择，因为这位艺术家以其抽象绘画而闻名于世，抽象绘画以垂直的色彩带为特征。垂直的太阳能管提供了与艺术家的条纹画类似的线性美学，同时提供了不同寻常的和富有挑战性的艺术媒介。

Title:Sun Sonata

artist:Gene Davis

Date:1983; Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Style:Color Field Painting,Op Art

Genre:installation

The outside solar wall of the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA during the night. The title Sun Sonata denotes both the rhythmic pattern of colors illuminated at night and the wall’s function as a solar energy collection system by day. The genesis of this remarkable combination of aesthetics and function dates to the early 1980s when plans were being drawn for the Museum. Carlton Abbott, the Museum’s architect, suggested that the solar wall tubes could be colored, prompting the commission of Davis, an eminent painter of the Washington Color School, to transform the solar wall into a work of art. Davis was a natural choice for this commission, as the artist had achieved an international reputation for his abstract paintings which characteristically consisted of vertical bands of colors. The vertical solar tubes offered a linear aesthetic similar to that of the artists’ stripe paintings, while also providing an unusual and challenging artistic medium.