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.
artist commodity factories
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.
believe artist order
I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
artist bricks foundation
An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.
artist giving information
The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.
simple artist ends
Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
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
artist hands people
Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.
successful simple artist
Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition.
thinking artist teach
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
art artist one-thing
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.