Horizontal Composite

Sol LeWitt

1970

Color screenprint

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A series of vertical stripes in muted pastel colors are arranged horizontally across the composition. Each stripe is filled with fine, parallel lines, some of which are angled. A series of vertical stripes in muted pastel colors are arranged horizontally across the composition. Each stripe is filled with fine, parallel lines, some of which are angled. Sol LeWitt was one of the pioneering figures in both the Conceptual and Minimalist art movements of the 1960s and '70s. Whether working as a painter, draftsman, photographer, printmaker, or sculptor, LeWitt conceived works of art that were fundamentally geometric and architectonic, and relied on the cube as a starting point for his explorations of space, time, form, volume, repetition, sequence, and variation. In Horizontal Composite, LeWitt generates a geome