Sol LeWitt
Born 1928 and died 2007 (78 years old
American artist whos work is conceptual as well as minimal. He is well known for his wall murals. He did also did drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, installation.
He got a BFA from Syracuse university in 1949.
Served in the Korean War.
1953 set up a studio in the Lower East Side (NYC)
Studied at School of Visual Arts in NYC while also diving into his interest of design at seventeen magazine.
Around 1955 he worked as a graphic designer and discovered the work of a photographer ( Eadweard Muybridge), He also worked at night at the MOMA those were some of his influences.
Like other famous artists he became a teacher for several schools.
With his most famous works being the wall murals, he would first have guidelines and simple diagrams of what the wall would look like. He would have other people take his drawings/ideas and and put them on the wall. Even today his work is being made on walls.
