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Modern Art Monday Presents: Sol LeWitt, Five Towers

sol lewitt five towers photo by gail worley
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One of the pioneers of Conceptual art, Sol LeWitt gave primacy to the originating idea of a work of art rather than to its execution. LeWitt had been developing these ideas in three-dimensional objects he called “structures.” Based on the unit of an open, rather than solid, cube, the works peel away what he perceived as the decorative skin on traditional sculpture, revealing their underlying skeleton, or structure. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Sol LeWitt, Five Towers