Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1928
- Died
- 2007
- Works
- 44
Top works
- Four basic kinds of lines & colour
- Circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, trapezoids and parallelograms
- Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Daniel Buren, Jan Dibbets, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long, N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner
- Sol Lewitt, Marco Tirelli
- Pick up the book, turn the page and enter the system
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1928-09-09
- Active to
- 2007-04-08
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 7
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,405x
- Movement Disorder Society‐sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS‐UPDRS): Scale presentation and clinimetric testing results
· 2008 · cited 6,728x
- PsychoPy2: Experiments in behavior made easy
· 2019 · cited 4,397x
- Rapid and simple method for purification of nucleic acids
· 1990 · cited 3,971x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,591x
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Quotes
- “The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”
- “The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.”
- “Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.”
- “The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.”
- “The artist’s will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion.. ..His wilfulness may only be ego.. ..The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course.”
- “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.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Solomon LeWitt , ( 1928-09-09 ) September 9, 1928, Hartford, Connecticut , US
- Died
- April 8, 2007 (2007-04-08) (aged 78), New York City, US
- Education
- Syracuse University , School of Visual Arts
- Known for
- Painting, drawing, sculpture
- Movement
- Conceptual Art , Minimalism
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Wikidata facts
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- date of birth
- 1928-09-09
- date of death
- 2007-04-08
- Commons category
- Sol LeWitt
- Commons Creator page
- Sol LeWitt
- start of work period
- 1953-01-01
- end of work period
- 2007-01-01
- floruit
- 1991-01-01
Sources (15)
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Article
Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) 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 to "sculptures") but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, installation, and artist's books. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965. The first biography of the artist, Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas, by Lary Bloom, was published by Wesleyan University Press in the spring of 2019.