Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt
Solomon "Sol" LeWittwas an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionConceptual Artist
Date of Birth9 September 1928
CountryUnited States of America
american-artist artist factory producer seen turns
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.
american-artist became deciding interested needed project serial starting system understood work
I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked.
intelligent intellectual enough
One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual
new-experiences judgement irrational
Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
beautiful artist play
[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.
art wall ideas
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
way generations standards
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
simple artist ends
Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
photography art development
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
beautiful ideas execution
Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
ideas objects
I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.
art way
During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
art architecture
Minimal art went nowhere.
simple ideas perception
The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.