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  • proper noun A surname of southern Irish descent, from the Gaelic Ó Flaithimhín.

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Examples

  • I can't even get through creative light-drawing on the Flavin site via Eszter; heck, even saying "Flavin" in that Jerry Lewis manner is painful...

    Pen-Elayne on the Web 2006

  • It's a short walk from Park Street Station to the mail room at Suffolk University, where Flavin picks up his mail before entering his classroom.

    Poet's Offer to Help Grieving Goes Unheeded Con Chapman 2011

  • The neon outlines were inspired by Dan Flavin sculptures, and Stark brought the huge space "down to size" by using a generous amount of dramatic black curtaining.

    David Stark Makes HuffPost's 2010 Game Changers Event Look Super Snazzy (PHOTOS) Anya Strzemien 2010

  • "Néon, Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?" offers the first comprehensive survey of the history of neon in art from 1940 to the present, with more than 100 works by the likes of Lucio Fontana, François Morellet, Joseph Kosuth, Bruce Nauman, Jeppe Hein, Alfredo Jaar and Dan Flavin whose 1968 "Untitled" is pictured at left.

    What's On Around Europe Thorsten Gritschke 2012

  • The neon outlines were inspired by Dan Flavin sculptures, and Stark brought the huge space "down to size" by using a generous amount of dramatic black curtaining.

    David Stark Makes HuffPost's 2010 Game Changers Event Look Super Snazzy (PHOTOS) Anya Strzemien 2010

  • “That comes with the territory,” Flavin says with a sigh.

    Poet's Offer to Help Grieving Goes Unheeded Con Chapman 2011

  • The central hall immediately stole my breath and the installations of Flavin, Beuys, Rauschenberg, and more, were a feast for the senses.

    Rebecca Taylor: Los Angeles and Berlin: Sister Cities Rebecca Taylor 2010

  • Mixed with some of Mr. Venet's own oil paintings is a spectacular selection of works by Marcel Duchamp, Arman, César, Robert Indiana, François Morellet, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Carl André, Dan Flavin…and the list goes on.

    Venet: A French Artist and His Domain Lanie Goodman 2011

  • But Flavin is more entrepreneurial than most underemployed literary types, and has started a business that he thinks has potential; hiring himself out to edit memorial poems that grieving family members write in memory of loved ones who've passed away, then publish in local newspapers.

    Poet's Offer to Help Grieving Goes Unheeded Con Chapman 2011

  • Serge Demailly View from the mezzanine of the artist's living room in Le Moulin, showing works by Dan Flavin, Francois Morellet and Robert Morris, and furniture by Bernar Venet.

    Venet: A French Artist and His Domain Lanie Goodman 2011

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