Instruction
Take the newspaper.
Read the title (you can read the whole text).
Then pick up liquid paint and carefully paint over the entire sheet of newspaper.
The resulting, form on any flat surface.
Continue for as long as you like.
The instruction above was inspired by Soll LeWitt's work, where he gives instructions to the public to create a drawing. The obvious question is, where is the real artwork then? In the gallery or in the written instructions?
TATE, Sol LeWitt, 1970 A Wall Divided Vertically into Fifteen Equal Parts, Each with a Different Line Direction and Colour, and All Combinations [online] At: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewitt-a-wall-divided-vertically-into-fifteen-equal-parts-each-with-a-different-line-t01766 (Accessed 23.08.2023)
This is the same question for the recipe and the finished dish. You will end up eating the final dish, but without a recipe, you won't eat it. Of course, you would cook something, but it’s completely different, and not related to this recipe. In addition to this, each prepared dish according to the recipe will be different. A little more salt, or I won't add the onion... and they'll still be variations on this recipe. Since this is a general instruction where the author makes his personal contribution to the final product.
When we transfer this experience to Saul LeWitt's work on how we need to draw a picture, it turns out the same way - the final physical work that the viewer sees will be in the gallery.
But this is a completely different question about the Instruction itself. The idea of the "drawing instruction" was not to implement this drawing but to the instruction itself. The creation of this procedure for creating a drawing is in itself a finished and completed work. It has already happened and Saul LeWitt is its author. And the fact that someone will cook the soup according to the instructions is already so, to say variations on the theme.
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