They're great! Here are some points about how his work is made:
"His most radical contribution was to separate the idea for a work from its execution. The instructions he wrote for wall drawings function like a composer's score; each time a work is realized, it differs, in much the same way that a piece of music changes with each performance, the success of the outcome being determined by the intelligence and lucidity of the instructions."
Q: Have you any idea what the drawings will look like before they're made? Sol Lewitt: I think I do, but then often they're different and that's what I like about it; it's something I didn't imagine ahead of time and couldn't foresee. Something completely new happens because of the contribution of others. Art students tend to get asked to do them but it could be anybody off the street, because it's just a matter of drawing lines and anybody can draw a line.
Excerpts taken from 'Sol Lewitt' by Sarah Kent, Modern Painters magazine, July/August 2007
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They're great! Here are some points about how his work is made:
"His most radical contribution was to separate the idea for a work from its execution. The instructions he wrote for wall drawings function like a composer's score; each time a work is realized, it differs, in much the same way that a piece of music changes with each performance, the success of the outcome being determined by the intelligence and lucidity of the instructions."
Q: Have you any idea what the drawings will look like before they're made?
Sol Lewitt: I think I do, but then often they're different and that's what I like about it; it's something I didn't imagine ahead of time and couldn't foresee. Something completely new happens because of the contribution of others. Art students tend to get asked to do them but it could be anybody off the street, because it's just a matter of drawing lines and anybody can draw a line.
Excerpts taken from 'Sol Lewitt' by Sarah Kent, Modern Painters magazine, July/August 2007
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