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light art

form of visual art using light as a medium
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Summary

light art is an art genre[1]. It draws 524 Wikipedia views per month (art genre category, ranking #106 of 200).[2]

Key Facts

  • Commons category: Light art[3]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Light art[4]
  • Described at URL: https://www.academia.edu/144292448/El_Light_Art_como_soporte_art%C3%ADstico[5], https://designinglighting.com/2022/05/14/4822/[6], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS_HWE-2nBk[7]
  • Partially coincident with: fire art[8]
  • Uses: light[9]
  • Hashtag: lightart[10]
  • Practiced by: light artist[11]
  • Theorized by: James Turrell[12], Gyula Kosice[13]

Why It Matters

light art has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

Ólafur Elíasson visual arts

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . museopicassomalaga.org. museopicassomalaga.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . realacademiasantelmo.org. realacademiasantelmo.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Theorized by → James Turrell, Gyula Kosice
    Sitelink count → 17
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bn', 'ca', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hy', 'it', 'mk', 'nl', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||mk, he */ import labels from sitelinks"
  2. 6w ago · Ziv · 2026-08-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Theorized by → James Turrell, Gyula Kosice
    Described at url → https://www.academia.edu/144292448/El_Light_Art_como_soporte, https://designinglighting.com/2022/05/14/4822/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS_HWE-2nBk
    Subclass of → —
    Image → The Blessing Hand by Stepan Ryabchenko in Saatchi Gallery in, James Turrell At the Guggenheim 2013 NYC Shankbone.jpg, AdelaAndeaChaosIncarnate.jpg
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Theorized by: Q140757915"
  3. 11w ago · Deilatam · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: sculpture"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0319362-light-art
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0319362-light-art, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
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