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Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes


<I>Incomplete Open Cube</I>
Cat. no. 31, Incomplete
Open Cube 3/1, 1974.
Black and white photo-graph,
ink and pencil on
vellum. 13 x 25 in.
The LeWitt Collection,
courtesy of the Wadsworth
Atheneum Museum of Art,
Hartford, CT

Conceptual Art

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.
--Sol LeWitt, 1967

In the early 1960s, Sol LeWitt and many other artists of his generation felt that art making had come to stress the appearance of the final product over its content. LeWitt attempted to redress this imbalance by shifting the focus back to the idea that generated the creation of a tangible object. Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes shows how LeWitt created new forms through his conceptualist method.

The Artistic Process

Variation

Seriality

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