Read more... Apr 18, 2008
1942), Sol LeWitt (19282007), Robert Mangold (b. 1937), Sylvia Plimack Mangold (b. (PNN Online)
And it was all yellow Jun 8, 2007
In a way, Oiticica's paintings prefigured developments in American art during the 60s and 70s - one inescapably thinks of Frank Stella, Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, and numerous later practitioners of what came to be called "fundamental painting". Oiticica got there by a different route, taking on board the lessons of an earlier, utopian European modernism - Malevich. (Guardian Unlimited)
APPRECIATION Apr 13, 2007
" LeWitt's willingness to delegate execution of his work to trusted assistants gave him something like the capacity to be in several places at once. I don't know whether anyone has made a count, but LeWitt probably had more solo exhibitions worldwide than any other artist of his generation, certainly far more than anyone else producing site-specific work. Born in Connecticut to Russian immigrant parents, LeWitt credited the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford with his early education in art. Late in... (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Living the eternal idea Apr 12, 2007
He took a job at the book counter at the Museum of Modern Art, where he met other young artists with odd jobs there, including Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman and Robert Mangold. He noticed the nascent works of Flavin and also absorbed early art by Jasper Johns and Frank Stella. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Sol LeWitt, 78, sculptor and muralist Apr 10, 2007
Among his fellow workers were the then-unknown young artists Dan Flavin, Robert Mangold and Robert Ryman, each of whom would be instrumental in the Minimalist revolution of the 1960s, and art critic Lucy Lippard, who would write many of the most influential critical essays of the period. The frontispiece dedication to Lippard's landmark 1973 book, "Six Years: The Dematerialization of Art (1966-1972)" is "For Sol.". (Los Angeles Times)
