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	Sol Lewitt (1928 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Sol LeWitt’s career took off in the beginning of the 1960’s when he adopted Minimal art in his sculpture.
		Coinciding with the LeWitt retrospective at the Whitney Museum of...
		LeWitt's work strikes a delicate balance between perceptual and conceptual qualities; between dedication to the simplicity and order of geometry and his pursuit of visual beauty and intuitive creation; and between authorship and anonym...
	wwar.com /masters/l/lewitt-sol.html (1370 words)

	Guggenheim Museum - Curriculum Online
		Sol LeWitt was born in 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut.
		LeWitt began to create works that utilized simple and impersonal geometric forms, exploring repetition and variations of a basic form or line as a way to achieve complex works.
		This work was executed, not by Sol LeWitt, but by a team of assistants according to a set of directions written by the artist.
	www.guggenheim.org /artscurriculum/lessons/sf_lewitt.php (944 words)

	Sol LeWitt
		Sol LeWitt was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1928, and attended Syracuse University.
		LeWitt's work was included in Documentas 6 (1977) and 7 (1982) in Kassel, as well as the 1987 Skulptur Projekte in Münster and the 1989 Istanbul Biennial.
		Sol LeWitt died on April 8, 2007 in New York City.
	www.diabeacon.org /exhibs_b/lewitt/index.html (0 words)

	Sol LeWitt Artist Detail » PaceWildenstein
		Sol LeWitt's frequent use of open, modular structures originate from the cube, a form that has influenced the artist's thinking since he first became an artist.
		Sol LeWitt: Structures includes early Wall Structures and three Serial Projects from the 1960s; four Incomplete Open Cubes from the 1970s; numerous painted white wood pieces from the 1980s: Hexagon, Form Derived from a Cube, Structure with Three Towers, among others as well as Maquettes for Concrete Block Structures from the late 1990s.
		Sol LeWitt moved to New York City in the 1950s and pursued his interest in design at Seventeen magazine, where he did paste-ups, mechanicals, and photostats.
	www.pacewildenstein.com /Artists/ViewArtist.aspx?artist=SolLeWitt&type=Artist&guid=b54a345b-9260-4534-bec0-dc47c856a629 (461 words)

	Hartford Advocate: Sol LeWitt: Matters of Fact (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Called the father of conceptual art, LeWitt was one of the first of his generation to conceive of the artist more along the line of a musical composer or an architect, than as a skillful genius at execution.
		Likewise, LeWitt has scrupulously maintained a kind of objective distance between himself and the public to whom his work is presented, avoiding the press machine "...avoiding 'the notion that the artist is a kind of ape that has to be explained by the civilized critic,'" he wrote in 1967.
		At 72, Sol LeWitt's name is still right up there in the art headlines at the beginning of a new century, though after 40 years, this exposure only demonstrates his capacity to evolve, attain successive kinds of synthesis, and yet never to repeat himself.
	old.hartfordadvocate.com /articles/lewitt.html (1831 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sol LeWitt : A Retrospective: Books: Gary Garrels (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sol LeWitt "is to art as Bach was to music," says conceptual artist Adrian Piper, indicating LeWitt's seminal importance to both the theory and practice of contemporary art.
		Sol LeWitt is a beautiful and substantial book, and its range of illustration and depth of scholarship make it the definitive study of this highly influential artist.
		Sol LeWitt's career has been defined by a series of groundbreaking explorations into the basic building blocks of form and their relationship to philosophical and mathematical concepts.
	www.amazon.ca /Sol-Lewitt-Retrospective-Garrels/dp/0300083580 (1136 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Sol LeWitt on the Roof (Site not responding. Last check: )
		LeWitt's designs are scanned into Nakama's computer and refined with a succession of software programs, including one that enables the artist and fabricator to see an illusion of the structure in three-dimensional form.
		LeWitt was born in 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut, and raised nearby in New Britain.
		LeWitt majored in studio art at Syracuse University, served in the U.S. Army in Japan and Korea, and in 1953 moved to New York City, where he worked for some years as a graphic designer, a field that still interests him.
	www.metmuseum.org /special/Sol_LeWitt/lewitt_more.htm (939 words)

	Sol LeWitt - AMAM (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to LeWitt, the ideas underlying conceptual art "need not be complex," and for multiple modular works he advocated using a simple form: "The form itself is of very limited importance; it becomes the grammar for the total work.
		LeWitt has stated that "Each row is autonomous and can function independently of the entire piece while still implying the other rows," and the final version of the work, All Three-Part Variations on Three Different Kinds of Cubes, has in fact been dispersed, with each row sold separately.
		LeWitt also participated in a number of significant Minimalist and Conceptual Art group exhibitions during the late sixties and early seventies, including Primary Structures, at the Jewish Museum, New York, 1966; When Attitude Becomes Form, at the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, 1969; and Information, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1970.
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/lewitt_sol.html (1469 words)

	DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park: Sol LeWitt
		LeWitt and his fellow artists set new priorities for art which aimed to direct it beyond the highly personalized content and psychologically loaded brushwork typifying the dominant Abstract Expressionist style of the previous decade.
		Each sculptural unit, coolly stripped of color and texture, and held constant in size and scale, is formally connected to the next faceted permutation.
		The viewer would, for instance, be hard pressed to discount the historical and religious connotations of the six-pointed "Star of David", or of the nine-pointed star that figures in the Islamic tradition.
	www.decordova.org /decordova/sculp_park/lewitt.htm (220 words)

	Addison - Sol LeWitt: Recent Acquisitions
		This project was the precedent for the landmark Sol LeWitt: Twenty-Five Years of Wall Drawings, 1968–93, organized by director Jock Reynolds in 1993.
		One example is the strong connection of LeWitt’s work to the Addison’s extensive holdings of photography by Eadweard Muybridge, the artist-inventor who in the late-nineteenth century pioneered the depiction in photographic sequences of people and animals carrying out ordinary movements.
		Above all, the Addison considers Sol LeWitt to be one of the major figures of his time; he revolutionized the idea and practice of drawing, and realigned the relationship between an idea and the art it produces.
	www.andover.edu /Addison/exhibition/2003-Winter/lewitt.htm (607 words)

	angle: a journal of arts and culture
		Interviewing Sol LeWitt required a ride into the Connecticut countryside, where he lives with his wife and daughters.
		LeWitt: As an artist in the late '50s I was aware that while Abstract Expressionism was the major form and that prodigious works were being made at the time, the end was in sight.
		LeWitt: Serial systems and their permutations function as a narrative that has to be understood.
	www.anglemagazine.org /articles/Saul_on_Sol_An_Interview_with_2237.asp (2029 words)

	BOMB Magazine: Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow
		LeWitt's work calls our attention to the disparity between the world of language and that of objects and actions.
		Although LeWitt's works of the last 20 years is still premised on the tension that exists between what can be said and what can be shown, the murals, wall drawings and sculptures he now produces are increasingly eccentric in form and individualistic in execution.
		After lunch at a café in town, a visit to the local synagogue that he designed and the warehouse were he stores his vast collection, Sol LeWitt and I retired to the comfort of his living room to excavate the past and shed light on the present.
	www.bombsite.com /lewitt/lewitt.html (328 words)

	Sol LeWitt: Drawing Series...
		Dia’s presentation of wall drawings by Sol LeWitt from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s was selected by the artist himself.
		LeWitt’s work was included in Documentas 6 (1977) and 7 (1982) in Kassel, as well as the 1987 Skulptur Projekte in Münster.
		A retrospective of LeWitt’s wall drawings was held in 1984 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
	www.diaart.org /exhibs_b/lewitt/drawing (0 words)

	Sol LeWitt
		Sol LeWitt: Structures includes early Wall Structures and three Serial Projects from the 1960s; four Incomplete Open Cubes from the 1970s; numerous painted white wood pieces from the 1980s: Hexagon, Form Derived from a Cube, Structure with Three Towers, among others as well as Maquettes for Concrete Block Structures from the late 1990s.
		Sol LeWitt moved to New York City in the 1950s and pursued his interest in design at Seventeen magazine, where he did paste-ups, mechanicals, and photostats.
		Sol LeWitt’s most recent retrospective was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art in 2000.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/SolLeWitt.html (465 words)

	Sol LeWitt Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		LeWitt's wall drawings, for instance, are much like musical scores: it is LeWitt's intention that they be originated by him, but be carried out by others, and that they are impermanent and repeatable.
		In his work of the 1960s, which emphasized lines, grids, and systems, LeWitt was inspired by the sequential photographs of the late 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, whose images of horses and human figures were studies in motion.
		LeWitt received a commission in 1996 to add to the new National Airport terminal in Washington.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/sol-lewitt (1568 words)

	Sol LeWitt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sol LeWitt developed his first works around 1962, paintings in relief which combined words and geometric forms.
		The work inherits LeWitt’s experience as a Minimalist: the forms are themselves placed on the ground in order to call into question the use of pedestals by classical sculpture; they are painted white to eliminate all representational or expressive qualities.
		Although the material realization of LeWitt’s theoretical models could appear optional or accessory given their geometrical simplification, they can nevertheless not evade their visual translations, and from this point of view they relate well to the “minimal” practice which implies the confrontation with the material work.
	www.galeriepieceunique.com /infoframes/lewitt1.htm (316 words)

	CMA Exhibition Feature : Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is a form that has become so familiar that we often look past it to focus on what might be in it, or on it, or perhaps we never notice it at all.
		In the 1960s, Sol LeWitt began to investigate the cube, which has become an essential element in his artistic language.
		LeWitt's varied use of the cube continues today, but in 1973 he began quite literally to take the cube apart.
	www.clevelandart.org /exhibcef/lewitt/html/index.html (174 words)

	SFMOMA \| Exhibitions \| Sol LeWitt Retrospective
		LeWitt is one of the key artists of the 1960s.
		Born in 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut, LeWitt moved to New York in 1953, just as Abstract Expressionism was beginning to gain public recognition and was dominating contemporary art.
		LeWitt has never forsaken the fundamental approach that he developed in the 1960s, emphasizing ideas over psychological expression and letting other people bring these ideas into physical and visual form.
	www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail/00_exhib_sol_lewitt_bio.html (0 words)

	SFMOMA \| Exhibitions \| Sol LeWitt Retrospective
		Wall drawings--works executed directly on the wall in pencil, crayon, ink washes, and recently acrylic paint--and "structures"--the term LeWitt prefers to use for his three-dimensional works rather than the more traditional term "sculpture"--form the core of this overview.
		This is a large exhibition but even so catches only the tip of the iceberg of LeWitt's work, for his production is staggering, with more than nine hundred wall drawings, hundreds of drawings on paper, and scores of structures, ranging in size from modest models to human-scale objects to room-sized installations and monumental, outdoor works.
		Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
	www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail/00_exhib_sol_lewitt.html (0 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Sol LeWitt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		LeWitt advocated giving priority to the concept or idea of art as opposed to the touch of the artist: "All planning and decision are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.
		Bernice Rose called LeWitt’s wall works "catalytic, as important for drawing as Pollock's use of the drip technique had been for painting in the 1950s." The 1996 International Bienal of São Paulo presents images of LeWitt’s work, a not-strictly-factual biography of the artist, and a chronology of his career.
		Before today’s "sensational" artists were even alive, LeWitt was shaping and developing a new kind of artistic expression, one that originated and flourished in the artist’s imagination.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=862 (559 words)

	Sol LeWitt - Art - New York Times
		Sol LeWitt, whose deceptively simple geometric sculptures and drawings and ecstatically colored and jazzy wall paintings established him as a lodestar of modern American art, died yesterday in New York.
		LeWitt gently reminded everybody that architects are called artists — good architects, anyway — even though they don’t lay their own bricks, just as composers write music that other people play but are still musical artists.
		LeWitt, by his methods, permitted other people to participate in the creative process, to become artists themselves.
	www.nytimes.com /2007/04/09/arts/design/09lewitt.html?ex=1333771200&en=322bf3b728a306f2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (0 words)

	eyestorm - Sol LeWitt
		Sol LeWitt is one of America's most consistent and important champions of Minimalism.
		Rising to prominence in the 60s, LeWitt quickly gained an international reputation for intellectually challenging and labor-intensive work.
		This reputation was both cemented and widened over the last two decades, as the artist broadened his range to include more sensuous elements - such as vibrant color.
	www.eyestorm.com /artist/Sol_LeWitt.aspx (91 words)

	NGA Classroom: New Angles on Art: Bios / Resources: Snapshot: Sol LeWitt (born 1928)
		Solomon LeWitt was born in 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut.
		LeWitt’s father, a doctor, died when the artist was six; his mother, a nurse, encouraged his early interest in art.
		LeWitt’s instructions are both specific and open-ended so that the resulting work of art varies according to the interpretation made by the draftsperson producing the work of art.
	www.nga.gov /education/classroom/new_angles/bio_lewitt.shtm (645 words)

	Museum of Contemporary Art
		Sol LeWitt, All One-, Two-, Three-, and Four- Part Combinations of Bands of Color in Four Directions, 1993-94.
		The exhibition includes photographic documentation of LeWitt tracing his long history with the MCA, including major exhibitions in 1979 and 2000.
		One of the most influential American artists of the 20th century, LeWitt was a pioneer of conceptual art.
	www.mcachicago.org /exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=172 (0 words)

	Sol LeWitt Online
		Sol LeWitt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		Sol LeWitt at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Tate Gallery, London, UK Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
		All images and text on this Sol LeWitt page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/lewitt_sol.html (0 words)

	Solbreda.nl
		Sol LeWitt was een van de grondleggers van de conceptuele kunst.
		Hij was een van de belangrijkste naoorlogse Amerikaanse kunstenaars, maar sterallures had Sol LeWitt beslist niet.
		Sol LeWitt, die zondag in New York op 78-jarige leeftijd aan kanker overleed, maakte vanaf de jaren zestig naam met ruimtevullende installaties gemaakt van geometrische vormen.
	www.solbreda.nl (0 words)

	Here and There » Blog Archive » Sol LeWitt
		I just saw that Sol LeWitt, someone whose work I’ve come across from time to time in my life, most memorably at PS1, died.
		I appreciated LeWitt’s fusion of color and geometry, his three-dimensional structures coming to resemble some vague advanced childhood toy, a la Erector Set.
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	www.hereandthereblog.com /2007/04/08/sol-lewitt (0 words)

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