Drawing Series. . .
exemplifies LeWitt's singular yet highly influential practice on manifold
counts. Formulated from an initial idea outlined in a diagrammatic sketch
accompanied by a set of instructions, it has been installed here by a team of
trained assistants supplemented by volunteers, who rigorously followed the
artist's directives, including his determination of its placement in relation
to the particular configuration of Dia's galleries. In the work of Judd and other Minimalists,
the specifics of the modular system underpinning any individual work are not
necessarily overtly legible, although they may be intuited. In LeWitt's art, by
contrast, the conceptual program that determines the composition is always
self-evident. Irrespective of the resulting degree of complexity, the point of departure—the
preset schema—is literally stated, in the title, the accompanying diagrammatic
instructions, or both. The straightforward formulation of the preset idea of Drawing
Series. . . has here been exhaustively realized: all 192 permutations of
the black pencil version are present.
Problem:
1. Using the rectangles, highlighted in green as a guide, calculate the number of rectangles contained in the entire piece.
2. Using the little squares, highlighted in red, above as a guideline, calculate the number of little squares in the entire piece.
1. Using the rectangles, highlighted in green as a guide, calculate the number of rectangles contained in the entire piece.
2. Using the little squares, highlighted in red, above as a guideline, calculate the number of little squares in the entire piece.
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