Connected to the Conceptual and Minimalist art movements of the 1960s and '70s, artist and theorist Sol LeWitt was a pivotal figure in driving idea art into the mainstream art discourse.

Using a prescription to direct the creation of a work, the artist's hand subordinated to the artist's thoughts, in direct contrast to the Abstract Expressionist movement earlier in the century. Actions, forms, and adjectives were broken down into terms, serially repeated, and reconfigured: grids, lines, shapes, colour, directions and starting points are several examples. These directives and constructs fueled an influential career of vast variety, subtlety and progression.

Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt famously stressed the importance of the ideas that animated his artwork over the particulars of their execution.

Sol LeWitt is widely associated with the Conceptual art movement. The artist reconsiders what constitutes a work of art and its genesis analyzing this idea through wall drawings, paintings, sculptures, prints and works on paper.

The artist is most known for his rigorous arrays of shapes, grids, designs and colours executed in pencil and paint following rigorous guidelines while executing the work.

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“ Since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. „

—Sol LeWitt