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.
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.
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.
art way
During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
art architecture
Minimal art went nowhere.
art ideas important
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work
art book littles
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
art ideas machines
The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.
art ideas development
Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.
artist logic leap
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
artist drawing interesting
All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product