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Chelsea Galleries: Sol LeWitt
by Luka on Nov.09, 2010, under Assignments, Painting/Drawing/2D art, Structure/ Architecture
LeWitt was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1928. He took classes for art as a child in the Wodsworth Antheneum. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1949. Then in the summer of 1950 traveled around Europe. Afterwards he was drafted for the Korean War and was assigned to make posters for the war. He then worked for an architect named I. M. Pei as an architectural draftsman. he is considered one of the most important and influential artists of his time.
His art is very geometric. He works with patterns and cubism. He does both painting and sculpting. His color palette including really bright colors, or white. His pieces were never different from the colors of the rainbow or black and white. He was considered part of the Minimal and Conceptual art movements. 
November 15th, 2010 on 2:54 pm
Another really important thing about him was his process. LeWitt’s wall drawings are created from instructions that read both like poetry or a mathematical formula and literal instructions for how to draw the particular artwork. There is a major long-term retrospective of his art installations at Mass MOCA. Where did you get the idea that he is involved with cubism? I would disagree with that statement.