{"id":624,"date":"2005-07-18T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-18T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2005-07-18T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-18T09:18:00","slug":"sol-lewitt-could-be-andrew-wk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"Sol LeWitt could be Andrew WK\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art on Paper covers a whole bunch of artists letters this issue but the one which really got to me was the letter Sol LeWitt wrote to Eva Hesse in 1965. I don\u2019t know if anyone is terribly familiar with the pop musician Andrew WK, however his take on life and art is always ultra \u2013 \u201cjust do it with positive vibes and the world will see your sincerity and respond accordingly\u201d. Funny enough (to me) this is basically what LeWitt wrote to Hesse in 1965. I\u2019m not lowering LeWitt in my critical thoughts, because I love most of what he does \u2013 however I never would have thought this letter would come from him in a million years. I guess I\u2019ve always thought of him as being much more oblique than that.<\/p>\n<p>Surprising in a good way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/sol2-776001.jpg\"><img style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/sol2-769078.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art on Paper covers a whole bunch of artists letters this issue but the one which really got to me was the letter Sol LeWitt wrote to Eva Hesse in 1965. I don\u2019t know if anyone is terribly familiar with the pop musician Andrew WK, however his take on life and art is always ultra \u2013 \u201cjust do it with positive vibes and the world will see your sincerity and respond accordingly\u201d. Funny enough (to me) this is basically what LeWitt wrote to Hesse in 1965. I\u2019m not lowering LeWitt in my critical thoughts, because I love most of what&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=624\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sol LeWitt could be Andrew WK\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}