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Painting 2006-7
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| Artist |
Tony Robbin |
| Year |
2006 |
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Acrylic on canvas |
| Dimensions |
142¼ cm × 178 cm (56 in × 70 in) |
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Tony Robbin (born November 24, 1943 in Washington, DC) is an American artist and author, who works with painting, sculpture and computer visualizations. He is considered part of the Pattern and Decoration (P&D) art movement.[1]
Robbin has had over 25 solo exhibitions of his painting and sculpture since his debut at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974, and has been included in over 100 group exhibitions in 12 countries.
He holds the patent for the application of Quasicrystal geometry to architecture, and has implemented this geometry for a large-scale architectural sculpture at the Danish Technical University in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, as well as one for the city of Jacksonville, Florida.
Tony Robbin's third book, Shadows of Reality, The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought has been published by Yale University Press, in Spring 2006. He is also the author of the book Engineering a New Architecture, published by Yale University Press in 1996 and Fourfield: Computers, Art & the Fourth Dimension, published in 1992 by Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown & Company on the subject of mathematics and art. He has written 24 papers and articles, mostly for peer review publications, and lectured to professional organizations and university departments of art, physics, mathematics, computer science, architecture, and engineering in the United States, in Europe and Japan, including engineering society meetings in Atlanta, Copenhagen, Guilford[disambiguation needed 
], and Budapest.
Tony Robbin is a pioneer in the computer visualization of four-dimensional geometry. Since 1981, his realtime rotation programs of four-dimensional figures have been useful for obtaining an intuitive feel for four-dimensional space, and quasicrystal space. The original DOS and Microsoft Windows versions are available for free download from his website. An Android live-wallpaper hypercube, rotating in 4-space, is available for free at the Android market, or on his official website. (see external links below)
Covering forty years of his artwork, Tony Robbin's retrospective is at the Orlando Museum of Art until October 30, 2011. The companion book Tony Robbin, A Retrospective is distributed by Hudson Hills Press. (see external links below)
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