Sol Lewitt Wall Drawing # 958/Splat

The Art Each of Sol Lewitt’s wall drawing are created to make you understand architecture as material; why the wall is a subject; how image, abstraction and text connect; what logic, authorship and even capitalism look like when they're thrown into question. The title of the piece that I chose was Wall Drawing #958/Splat this title is very good description of what it is conveying. This drawing sort of looks like an oil splat …showed first 75 words of 573 total…

…showed last 75 words of 573 total…instead of the object, Lewitt liberated art from its traditional dependence on the skills and personality of the artist. The success of Conceptual art is determined not by the person who executes it, but by whomever devises the concept. It succeeds at the level of the Platonic ideal. I am going to end my paper with a quote from Sol Lewitt “Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach." 2