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Wavy Vertical Brushstrokes (Multicolor)
199420th Century
15 in. x 11 1/4 in.
Sol LeWitt, American, (September 9, 1928–April 8, 2007)
Object Type:
Work on Paper
Medium and Support:
gouache on paper
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum purchase with a gift from Alva Greenberg
Accession Number:
2012.1.2
The artist Sol LeWitt is frequently associated with Conceptual art, a style that some would characterize as Post-Modernism. LeWitt and other practitioners made works in which the concept, or idea behind the piece, was deemed more important than the look of the finished product. Many of LeWitt’s works consisted of sets of specific instructions on executing large-scale projects like murals and sculptures. The work was then executed by assistants according to LeWitt’s idea and instructions. In the 1990s, however, LeWitt returned to making art with his own hand in a series of gouaches exploring curved, parallel lines such as these. Whereas the shapes used in his previous work relied upon very precise geometric and even mathematic language to describe how the work should be executed, the late work explores precisely the opposite: a free-form brush stroke, each unique and nearly impossible to describe with specificity.
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