Sol Dewitt

I think Sol Dewitt was a an artistic pathfinder in sculpture. His main influences were minimalism and conceptual which he actually founded. His initial works with cubes evolving to open, modules and then tearing off the carefully constructed skin revealing the skeletal structure is vastly different than his later series of "splotches." He once said:

"In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."     This is the point I love about Sol Dewitt; an evolving style resulting in the seeming combination of his wall murals and sculpture in direct contrast to his cube-based work. The colorful playfulness here softens the cube-like structure of a building. I absolutely love these "splotches" because the complexity of this man's genius is as beautiful as his "splotches."			”