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SOL LE WITT IS AWESOME
Posted by Kate on 08/11/09
Apologies if the next few weeks of blogging are novel posts of blah-blah-blah, but after many years of relying on my Flickr as a stream of consciousness, I am totally enjoying the ability to develop longer-winded musings, that are not limited by the Twitter "micro blogging" character count. I often get asked who my influencers are, as well as the ever dreaded phrase "what inspires you?", perhaps this blog will silence these questions, as I share with you some of the things that I think are awesome. Here goes my first try.
Perception of ideas leads to new ideas.
You can find my first references to Le Witt in my A-Level Art Journals. When my obsessions with geometry and isometry were encouraged by my teacher. Le Witt may have looked like a mass murderer in the old black and white photos of him in books, but actually he was a fucking genius and the 'King of Conceptualism'.
All ideas are art if they are concerned with art and fall within the conventions of art.
Revered in the 60's for his minimalist conceptual structures (sculptures) and wall drawings. He was far too prolific for me to summarise the vast range of his experiments and insitu exhibitions, so instead I suggest that you research him further, no doubt one of them will catch your eye, and bizarrely feel as modern as your HDTV. Le Witt died the day before my birthday in 2007, I wish we could have had tea together.
The artist cannot imagine his art, and cannot perceive it until it is complete.
All ideas need not be made physical.