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Sol LeWitt
Solomon LeWitt
Sol LeWitt
Solomon LeWitt
- September 9, 1928; Hartford, Connecticut, United States
- April 8, 2007; New York, United States
- 1955 - 2007
- American
- Conceptual Art,Minimalism
- installation
- painting,printmaking,drawing,installation,photography
- Charles Gibbons,Adrian Piper
- School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City, NY, US
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_LeWitt
- www.sollewittprints.org
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Solomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism.
LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he preferred instead of "sculptures") but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, and painting. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965.
Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007)
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SOL LEWITT
Sol LeWitt was one of the most influential artists of his generation, redefining the notions of art and artist through his experimentation with line and form, idea and process. With a focus on seriality, the American artist created an austere, minimalist vocabulary of geometric shapes, subjecting them to a series of rules and experimentations in a variety of media, from drawing and painting to artist’s books, multiples, furniture, photographs, prints and structures.
In his 1967 manifesto “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art”, LeWitt famously coined the term “conceptual art”, a pivotal event in modern art, asserting that “the idea becomes a machine that makes the art”. It is a framework in which the artist is “a thinker and originator of ideas rather than a craftsman ... in the role of a composer rather than player”.
In the early sixties, LeWitt had constructed sculptural works as cubes and modular forms. They became the starting point for a diverse language: variations on cubes and lines, circles and arcs, explored through drawings, artist’s books and wall drawings.
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By Lary Bloom
I have often been asked how I came to write a biography of the man the Los Angeles Times said, "changed art internationally," and the New York Times called “a lodestar of American art.”
Living in Chester for thirty years, befriending Sol LeWitt and his wife Carol, and observing his support of the town, its merchants and fellow residents would have been inspiration enough for any writer. For here was, during his too-short lifetime (1928-2007), an exemplar of generosity, deep conviction, and significant achievement who shunned the limelight and avoided self-aggrandizement. A man who along the way turned down lucrative commissions from conglomerates whose products offended his sense of propriety (Philip Morris, Nestles, 3M, United Technology, etc.). In short, he was a model of how to live and work not only for other artists but for all of us.
After a childhood in Hartford, growing up in New Britain, studying at Syracuse, working in New York City and then Italy and becoming the leading conceptualist widely celebrated for developing new ways to make and mar
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