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May 28, 2020

IF SOL LEWITT DREW HOLISTIC FORMS

My first encounter with the wall drawings of Sol Lewitt was at Mass MoCA. That was something like 10 years ago. And I have only now realized something fundamental about Lewitt’s drawings: they are...

“The creation and conservation of the universe are a function of a continuous motion whose origin is an acoustic vibration. The idea of the vibratory unity of the world has led philosophers to create a cosmogony in which this homogeneity of the universe is expressed in a system of concordances.” Schneider.

“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” Whitehead

“In a sense, all pictures are impossible: they have a double reality. They are seen both as patterns of lines, lying of a flat background and also as objects depicted in a quite different, three-dimensional, space.” Marr.

Tagged: SOL LEWITT

IF SOL LEWITT DREW HOLISTIC FORMS

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