Sol LeWitt
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“The straight line tells the truth,” Piet Mondrian wrote. Does that mean the curved line tells a lie? Sol LeWitt’s recent wall drawings, grand loops applied directly on the gallery’s walls, were meant to be transientthe works were painted over before the next show. But while they were there, they stunned the eye. Both worksWall Drawing #879/Loopy Doopy (black and white), 1998, and Wall Drawing #880/Loopy Doopy (orange and green), 1998are ironic reprises of Op art, the simple geometry of which has an affinity with LeWitt’s own earlier neo-Suprematist squares. His works are also