Sol LeWitt

“Structures”

LeWitt came to fame in the late

1960s with his wall drawings and

"structures" (a term he preferred

instead of "sculptures").

The Toledo Museum of

art has one of Sol’s

“structures” in its collection.

His use of open, modular structures originates from

the cube.

Cube-A box-shaped solid object that has six identical square faces.

A cube has 6 square faces.

A cube has 8 points (vertices).

A cube has 12 edges.

A square is in many ways like a cube, only in two dimensions rather than three.

The cube was a form that

influenced the artist’s thinking

from the time that he first became an

artist.

At first he created closed forms that

looked like wooden boxes wooden objects

In the 1960s he “decided to remove the skin altogether and reveal the structure.”

This skeletal form, the radically

simplified open cube, became

a basic building block of the

artist’s three-dimensional

work

Many of his works are large scale and constructed in aluminum or steel.

Sol Le Witt“Structures”

7th Grade