Art and Electronic Media: Light

I enjoyed reading about light in Art and electronic Media and how it went from painting to being in an installation (pg. 17). I like how Edward Shanken, the book's author, discusses how light went from being flat and on canvas, to a real life object in works of art. Artists who were first interested in light used different methods of painting to show light in order to make their paintings look more three dimensional. Today light is not only used in flat, two dimensional pieces, but also in massive projects that only use light to create stunning art. Tribute in Lights is a good example of how light can be used in a massive scale project (pg. 19). The lights beam upward next to the world trade center site, to show where the two buildings once stood, as a remembrance. The powerful piece only uses light to show the emotion of what has been lost.