Sol LeWitt (American, 1928 – 2007)

All One, Two, Three, and Four-Part Combinations of Gray, Yellow, Red, and Blue, 1991

Set of fifteen etchings with aquatint
14 x 14 in. each; 16 x 16 in. framed

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. Sol LeWitt, "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art," 1967

Sol LeWitt made art about ideas. He referred to this practice as Conceptual art, a movement dating from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s in which the concept behind the artwork is more important than the object itself. According to LeWitt, all planning and decisions are made in advance and the execution and final product are of secondary importance.

A hallmark of LeWitt’s production was the use of repetition and sequencing. In, All One, Two, Three, and Four-Part Combinations of Gray, Yellow, Red, and Blue, the fifteen etchings represent the blending of four colors in specified ways. As in many of his works, LeWitt puts forth a strict set of rules that determines the final composition, creating art in a format that often employs mathematical progression as the guiding concept.

An early and important influence on LeWitt was the 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who captured movement as sequences of still images. Muybridge’s scientific approach to consecutive images is a key characteristic of LeWitt’s work. LeWitt is represented in the permanent collections of most major national and international museums.

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