Sol LeWitt – Wall Drawing #1136, 2004, Sol LeWitt
The distinction between a drawing and painting is something I have been looking at through making my work and researching other artists.
Sol LeWitt’s wall drawing works come with instructions, as if asking the viewer to be able to recreate them. The audience is a co-creator of the work. This reflects back to my ideas in that without the audience, there is no work.
Sol LeWitt is an artist who works mainly in drawings and other media. I came to find out about LeWitt through suggestions from tutors when discussing ‘Transient Convection’ (2021) in its early stages.
His drawings are well known as to have been done by someone else. He believes that the conception of the idea, rather than the execution is what makes the artwork. His main concern was the conceptual art (the ideas) rather than the execution, this was interesting for me as I work in almost a completely opposite way. However, the instructions given to the person making the drawing were open to their own interpretation as seen below.
27/05/2021 – I think after exploring the work of Sol LeWitt and discovering the importance of the instructions, I think in the future I would try to incorporate more planning into my work. However i think that this planning would have to be limited as to not limit the spontaneous nature of my work.
