Monday, April 9, 2007

Homage to Sol LeWitt

When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.
The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

—Sol LeWitt
Guggenheim

Published: April 9, 2007
Sol LeWitt’s deceptively simple geometric sculptures and drawings and ecstatically colored and jazzy wall paintings established him as a lodestar of modern American art.


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