Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
LeWitt, Sol |
Title |
Bands of Lines in Four Directions (Gray on Colors): Black |
Medium |
From a set of four oil-based woodcuts, 11/20 |
Date |
1995 |
Description |
Sol LeWitt (Hartford, Connecticut 1928-2007 New York) Bands of Lines in Four Directions (Gray on Colors): Yellow, Black, 1995 From a set of four oil-based woodcuts, 11/20 12 ½ x 12 ½ each Knoxville Museum of Art, 2015 gift of Helen and Russell Novak in honor of their children, Janet Novak Goldberg of blessed memory and James Alan Novak Sol LeWitt is considered one of the most influential makers of conceptual art, a form in which the essence of the work is the artist's idea rather than the physical making of an object. He viewed his role as not unlike an architect who designs a building but does not build it. Restricting himself to a narrow range of colors and geometric shapes, he experiments with the formal possibilities of compositions constructed using logical, predetermined sequences. For his woodblock prints, LeWitt composed a set of drawings and measurements later translated into print form by master printmaker Jo Watanabe. Watanabe had such an exact sense of LeWitt's color and composition that LeWitt simply had to sketch and diagram his ideas. "I am not an artist. I am basically an extension of Sol LeWitt's hands," Watanabe once said. |
Catalog Number |
2015.19.21b |
Search Terms |
Woodcuts Paper Prints |
Credit line |
gift of Helen and Russell Novak in honor of their children, Janet Novak Goldberg of blessed memory and James Alan Novak |