Showing posts with label Sol LeWitt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sol LeWitt. Show all posts

Monday, April 9, 2007

Conceptual Lifetime

Sol LeWitt, Master of Conceptualism, Dies at 78 [New York Times link]

I am so inspired by LeWitt's work. I studied him in college in 1992. I guess, while in college studying art, I was at an age where cerebral things appealed to me. Not intellectual (me?)--in fact most of Conceptualist art was intended to have no meaning or aesthetic other than to challenge (then) modern ideas of art. It was anti-art. In case you're not familiar with Sol's tenets of Conceptualism, here's a quick 3-step study: write some directions on how to draw something, give those directions to someone else to execute, stand-back and admire your work (their work). Ha! Did I know then that I would become an architect. Nope.