Tony Robbin

{{Infobox artist

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| caption = Photo courtesy of Tony Robbin.

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|11|24}}

| birth_place = Washington, D.C., United States

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| field = Painting, Sculpture

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| movement = Pattern and Decoration

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| website = {{URL|tonyrobbin.net}}

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| title = Painting 2005-7

| artist = Tony Robbin

| year = 2005

| medium = Acrylic on canvas

| height_imperial = 56

| width_imperial = 70

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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.{{Citation

| last = Cotter

| first = Holland

| title = Scaling a Minimalist Wall With Bright, Shiny Colors

| newspaper = New York Times

| date = 2008-01-15

| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/arts/design/15patt.html

| accessdate = 2009-09-12

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Work

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

Robbin was granted a patent for the application of quasicrystal geometry to architecture,Architectural body having a quasicrystal structure

{{US patent|5603188|US Patent 5603188 A}} 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.

Robbin is the author of four books: Fourfield: Computers, Art, & the 4th Dimension (1992 ),{{cite book|last=Robbin|first=Tony|title=Fourfield : computers, art & the 4th dimension|year=1992|publisher=Little, Brown|location=Boston|isbn=9780821219096|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/fourfieldcompute0000robb}} Engineering A New Architecture,{{cite book|last=Robbin|first=Tony|title=Engineering a new architecture|year=1996|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven|isbn=9780300061161}} (1996),{{cite journal|last=Arnheim|first=Rudolf|title=Engineering a New Architecture by Tony Robbin|journal=Leonardo|year=1997|volume=20|issue=2|pages=159|doi=10.2307/1576431|jstor=1576431}} Shadows of Reality{{cite book|last=Robbin|first=Tony|title=Shadows of reality : the fourth dimension in relativity, cubism, and modern thought|year=2006|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven|isbn=9780300129625}} (2006) and Mood Swings A Painters Life{{cite book|last=Robbin|first=Tony|title=Mood Swings: A Painter's Life|year=2011|publisher=Tony Robbin|asin=B0065IGKTQ}} (2011), an autobiography.

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)

In 2011 the Orlando Museum of Art organized a retrospective of Robbin's paintings and drawings.{{cite web|title=Tony Robbin: A Retrospective, Paintings and Drawings 1970-2010|url=http://www.omart.org/exhibitions/tony-robbin-retrospective-painti|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808002139/http://www.omart.org/exhibitions/tony-robbin-retrospective-painti|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 August 2011|work=Orlando Museum of Art|accessdate=14 January 2014}} The companion book Tony Robbin, A Retrospective is distributed by Hudson Hills Press.{{cite book|title=Tony Robbin: A Retrospective: Paintings and Drawings 1970-2010|year=2011|publisher=Hudson Hills Press|location=Easthampton, MA|isbn=9781555953676|url=http://www.hudsonhills.com/title_detail/323/Tony-Robbin--A-Retrospective---Paintings-and-Drawings-1970-2010|author1=Linda Dalrymple Henderson |authorlink= Linda Dalrymple Henderson |author2=Robert Kushner |author3=Joyce Kozloff |author4=Tony Robbin |author5=Carter Ratcliff |accessdate=14 January 2014}}

Notes

References

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External links

[http://tonyrobbin.net/ Official site]
[http://tonyrobbin.net/shadows.html Shadows of Reality]
[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_1_95/ai_n17114143 Review of Shadows of Reality by David Ebony]
[https://archive.today/20121218020529/https://market.android.com/details?id=kuba.livewall.cube4d Hypercube live wall-paper for Android devices]

Category:20th-century American painters

Category:20th-century American male artists

Category:American male painters

Category:21st-century American painters

Category:21st-century American male artists

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Category:20th-century American sculptors

Category:American male sculptors