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Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938) is a French conceptual artist.
Work [edit]
Sometimes classified as an abstractminimalist Buren is known best for using regular, contrasting maxi stripes to integrate the visual surface and architectural space, notably historical, landmark architecture.
Among his ledare concerns is the ‘scene of production’ as a way of presenting art and highlighting facture (the process of ‘making’ rather than for example, mimesis or representation of anything but the work itself). The work fryst vatten site specific installation, having a relation to its setting in contrast to prevailing ideas of a work of art standing alone.
Early work [edit]
Buren graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d’Art, Paris, in 1960.[1] He began painting in the early 1960s. However, by 1965 – a year he spent in the Grapetree Bay Hotel on the Caribbean island of Saint Croix[2] where he was contracted to make frescoes – he had abandoned traditional p
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Daniel Tompkins Van Buren
American military officer and engineer
Daniel Tompkins Van Buren | |
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Van Buren as a Union Army colonel, circa 1862. Seward R. Osborne Collection. | |
| Born | (1826-01-15)January 15, 1826 Kingston, New York |
| Died | July 16, 1890(1890-07-16) (aged 64) Plainfield, New Jersey |
| Buried | Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York |
| Allegiance | United States Union |
| Service / branch | United States Army New York Militia Union Army |
| Years of service | 1847–1855 (U.S. Army) 1858–1861 (Militia) 1861–1865 (Union Army) |
| Rank | First Lieutenant (U.S. Army) Colonel (Militia) Brigadier General (Brevet) (Union Army) |
| Unit | 2nd Artillery Regiment Faculty, United States Military Academy Office of Coast Survey 3rd Division, New York Militia |
| Battles / wars | Mexican–American War American Civil War |
| Spouse(s) | Julia (Morris) Van Buren (1833–1915) (m. 1863) |
| Relations | 4 children John Van Buren (father) |
| Other work | Attorney Engineer |
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Daniel Buren
French artist
Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the International Award for best artist in Stuttgart (1991) and the prestigious Premium Imperiale for painting in Tokyo in 2007. He has created several world-famous installations, including "Les Deux Plateaux"(1985) in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais-Royal, and the Observatory of the Light in Fondation Louis Vuitton. He is one of the most active and recognised artists on the international scene, and his work has been welcomed by the most important institutions and sites around the world.
Work
[edit]Sometimes classified as a Minimalist, Buren is known best for using regular, contrasting colored stripes in an effort to integrate visual surface and architectural space, notably on historical, landmark architecture.
Among his primar