Field trip

The works, which most impressed me at the Dia foundation in Beacon, were the meticulous drawings of Sol Lewitt. Born in 1928 , Sol has been in the art-world for much of the last century. His exhibit was installed in 2006 and Sol died in April of 2007.Many of his drawings were very faint from far away but upon further examination were not only very intricate but also very precise. He approaches his drawings in a very mathematical way, sometimes, more than others. One of his pieces that impressed me the most I actually didn’t like at first glance. He assigns different kinds of lines to the numbers one to twenty. He then in a matrix did every fraction with the combination of those numbers. The lines in the different boxes related to each other in an unplanned and completely coincidental way, however they looked intentional. I also like is really intricate drawings with the red, yellow and blew pencils, one in particular had a wood like/ amoeba texture and it seem like all the lines although amorphous were the exact same distance apart from each other. All of his work is also drawn directly on the way, which is cool because when the exhibit is over that means that all the work he did will be destroyed and can never been seen exactly the same again.