sᴇʟᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴀʀᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ: sᴏʟ ʟᴇᴡɪᴛᴛ, ᴡᴀʟʟ ᴅʀᴀᴡɪɴɢ 1, 1968

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             Early Career

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Solomon Lewitt - born 1928 in Hartford, CT

art class at Wadsworth Atheneum as child

bachelor's in fine art at Syracuse U in 1949

served in Korean War: CA, Japan, Korea

moved to NYC in 1953, studio on Lower East Side

School of Visual Arts, photostat machine for Seventeen

1955-56 - architecture firm I.M Pei and Associates

Pei created glass pyramid at Musee du Louvre in Paris

1960-1965 - Information and Book Sales Desk at

NY's Museum of Modern Art, night receptionist for school

1965 - Paragraphs on Conceptual Art

anti-subjective approach contrast with AbEx

structures - 3d forms, prefer to sculptures

1965 - large slabs of painted wood, geometric shapes

modular structures - lengths of wood painted white, joined

to form large open cubes, appear to go ad infinitum

1966 - included along works by Donald Judd, Robert Morris,

Dan Flavin, Tony Smith in Primary Structures at NY's 

Jewish Museum 

1968 - began wall drawings

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               Analysis

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1968 - Paula Cooper Gallery inaugural exhibitio

organized to benefit Student Mobilization Committee to End

the War in Vietnam

feature 14 artists

include Carl Andre, Jo Baer, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, 

Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman

curators: Robert Huat, Lucy Lippard, Ron Wolin

Wall Drawing 1: Drawing Series II 18 (A & B) - 2 side by side

drawings, 48x48in

each square divided into 4 squares, 4 smaller squares

32 total squares

left drawing - horizontal, vertical lines

right drawing - cross hatched lines

represent permutational possibilities of basic drawing operations

employ draftsmen, typically credited them by listing under work

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            Minimalism's 

          Relationship to

              Sculpture

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1968 - death in 2007 - more than 1270 drawings

engage architecture of space

1965 - critic come up with "sculptecture"

bridge boundaries between painting, sculpture, architecture

Minimalism - bodily, spatial experience

Conceptual - transformative qualities of art

melded work to architecture itself