Artist field note

Sol Lewitt

The instruction can be the artwork.

Appears inConceptual Art
Wall Drawing #51 by Sol Lewitt
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Wall Drawing #51

1970

The wall is covered by lines drawn from architectural points. The room itself supplies the structure.

The five in one idea

LeWitt shifted authorship from the artist’s hand to the artist’s proposition - without making the result visually indifferent.