SOL LEWITT
20th Century Artists
Bath
Sol Lewitt created pure and simple, impersonal designs. He explored repetitions and variations of a basic form or line to achieve complex yet satisfying works.
'The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting…therefore it is the best form to use as a basic unit for any more elaborate function, the grammatical device from which the work may proceed'.
Sol Lewitt
SOL LEWITT
Sol Lewitt is regarded as a founder of ‘Conceptual Art' where the planning and generation of a (sequential) scheme is the work itself and the material execution is not a necessary act and could be realised by anyone according to the artist's specifications. Sol Lewitt created pure and simple, impersonal designs. He explored repetitions and variations of a basic form or line to achieve complex yet satisfying works.
By the mid 1960's he was concentrating on three dimensional, (modular) works based on the cube. These were all coloured white and mostly built by factories in steel or aluminium. ‘