Sol LeWitt

 Sol LaWitt

Sol LeWitt is known as one of the most important artists in the Minimal and Conceptual art. Since 1960, LeWitt has worked in a variety of media including sculpture, prints, and photography. He has work from photography to on paper and wall drawings, and includes 3-dimensional structures that explore different geometric forms such as pyramids and cubes. His work has been shown in hundreds of museums and galleries around the world.
The most attractive part of his work is the use of color and the geometric shapes, colors and black and white 3D paintings. The large paintings displayed on walls in the MASS MoCA is an installation done not only by himself but also (under his guidance) by his assistants.

Some of the paintings of Sol LaWitt at MASS MoCA

The paintings are the most important contribution of Sol LeWitt but Sculptures with geometric shapes like cubes and pyramids, open and closed, uneven structure is another big contribution to the art world. The white cube construction is as attractive as a colorful construction of uneven parts.

Some gimps of his Sculptures.

Photo: Jason Wyche

He also recognized the benefits for artistic productions and publication. To produce the books and performance based display, he used his inherent element of photography and organized them in a system.

Sol LeWitt
Autobiography Sol LeWitt 1980
New York, Multiples, Inc., 1980

An inspirational sentence said  by Sol La Witt dedicated to all artists  :
(I am most inspired by )

“Try and tickle something inside you, your ‘weird humor.’ You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.” 

“You are not responsible for the world — you are only responsible for your work, so do it. And don’t think that your work has to conform to any idea or flavor. It can be anything you want it to be.”

“Conceptual art is not necessarily logical,” 

“The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.”

• From an article in Art forum magazine in 1967