Solomon “Sol” LeWitt

Solomon “Sol” LeWitt was an American Jewish artist who was one of the founders of conceptual and minimalist art.

In 1967, Saul Levitt wrote in the art BBS, “the goal of the conceptual artist is to make the audience intellectually interested in the work, so he usually chooses to reduce the emotional appeal of the work. But there’s no reason to think that conceptual artists deliberately bore the audience. It is the expectation of emotional stimulation that hampers the enjoyment of the art, and this expectation arises because people have long been accustomed to expressive art.” As the article mentioned, sol, victor pioneering art practice in abstract lines, simple colors and bland material for elements, on the visual effect that sustains a simple style, but at its core status, is he wrote a series of “instruction”: the people who take part in the exhibition according to these instructions will work to draw on the wall. From the instruction to the completion of the work, the subject of artistic practice has changed, and the implied “openness” of creation also provides another entrance for the audience to understand these works.

I think his work is always contemporary. Even if a work was created in the 1980s, when today’s audience enters an art gallery, they still see “new” work. Saul Levitt’s art is reproducible and distributable, and although it requires the help of a team of curators, it does not require shipping containers, art insurance, or any of the restrictions that traditional art requires. Saul Levitt’s art suffers little actual harm because at its core it is just an idea