Sol LeWitt

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5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,405x

2. Movement Disorder Society‐sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS‐UPDRS): Scale presentation and clinimetric testing results

   · 2008 · cited 6,728x

3. PsychoPy2: Experiments in behavior made easy

   · 2019 · cited 4,397x

4. Rapid and simple method for purification of nucleic acids

   · 1990 · cited 3,971x

5. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger^*

   · 2017 · cited 3,591x

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Quotes

• “The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”
• “The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.”
• “Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.”
• “The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.”
• “The artist’s will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion.. ..His wilfulness may only be ego.. ..The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course.”
• “The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.”

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Key facts

Born

Solomon LeWitt , ( 1928-09-09 ) September 9, 1928, Hartford, Connecticut , US

Died

April 8, 2007 (2007-04-08) (aged 78), New York City, US

Education

Syracuse University , School of Visual Arts

Known for

Painting, drawing, sculpture

Movement

Conceptual Art , Minimalism

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