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The majority of your essay should contain the following: o Process (how they make their work) o Concept, intent, and/or meaning behind their work. (Basically discuss what their work is about.) o Any movements and influences associated with the artist. (Who or what influenced the artists to make what they do.) o Historical context (when are they/did they make work, how is/was it viewed in those times versus now -- if applicable) o Other important details

Lawrence Weiner –
Cite one or two examples of their most difficult and/or well-known work.
Lawrence Weiner is a conceptual artist that uses text and type-style (fonts) in places where the combination of – text, font, a small amount of …show more content…
These artists used basic lines, shapes, and colors in its most basic forms and were able to create highly conceptual pieces of art from those basic elements of art without what had been previously considered necessary before, such as common forms, expected features and traditional artistic concepts. The artists of the Minimalist movement, with their hard edged shapes and color fields, such as Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, and Al Held, broke new (Abstract into Non-objective) ground by creating art that used only color (or the lack thereof), line, geometric shapes and color fields to create very powerful visual …show more content…
The city where he grew up was where he first saw words as art – in the graffiti painted on many of the buildings in his neighborhood. Before becoming an artist, he worked on an oil tanker, on the docks and unloading train cars. In 1968, after having a piece created for an outdoor exhibit in Vermont dissembled by students that did not understand what it was, Weiner figured out a way to make his work less obtrusive…and that was by presenting only a verbal description of the work – his first words-as-art.
Soon after this, he presented his now-popular philosophy on the nature of art by creating a textual piece that provides a short list that describes his new kind of art: “(1) The artist may construct the piece. (2) The piece may be fabricated. (3) The piece may not be built. [Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist, the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.]” (http://www.barbarakrakowgallery.com/lawrence-weiner?bio This piece caught the attention of the art world and was the grand start to his artistic love affair with