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Lawrence Weiner

1942 - 2021

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Lawrence Charles Weiner (February 10, 1942 – December 2, 2021) was an artist born and raised in New York City. One of the central figures in the formation of Conceptual Art in the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner explored the potentials of language as a sculptural medium. For him language could be presented in any format able to discourse with typical art subjects such as: language installed on a wall, printed as text in a book or catalog, spoken or performed in a film, spoken aloud in conversation, simply remembered, et cetera; as Lawrence explains in 1970:"As to construction please remember that... there is no correct way to construct the piece as there is no incorrect way to construct it. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lawrence Weiner is the 1,803rd most popular painter (down from 1,790th in 2019), the 7,972nd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,239th in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Painter.

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Among painters, Lawrence Weiner ranks 1,803 out of 2,023. Before him are Pauline Auzou, Paul Sandby, Theodore Robinson, Albín Brunovský, Helen Allingham, and Wang Shimin. After him are L. S. Lowry, Emil Filla, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Jean Broc, Ivan Argunov, and Vija Celmins.

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Among people born in 1942, Lawrence Weiner ranks 501. Before him are Horst Wolter, José Omar Pastoriza, Miguel Ángel Santoro, Roger Swerts, Diana Yorgova, and Ferenc Kiss. After him are Jan Olsson, Alexander Kalyagin, Gillian Rubinstein, Gray Davis, Eugène Camara, and Ion Drîmbă. Among people deceased in 2021, Lawrence Weiner ranks 452. Before him are Yekaterina Gradova, Sabine Weiss, Henry Darrow, Fausto Gresini, Bronius Kutavičius, and Tubilandu Ndimbi. After him are Franco Marini, Michael Fisher, Aleksandar Shalamanov, Giuseppe Galante, Sanja Ilić, and Art LaFleur.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lawrence Weiner ranks 7,974 out of 20,380. Before him are Constance Towers (1933), Robert Jarvik (1946), Rick Warren (1954), Theodore Roberts (1861), Herman Glass (1880), and Roger Clark (1978). After him are Isaac Israel Hayes (1832), Louis L'Amour (1908), Frank Churchill (1901), Barbara Ehrenreich (1941), Orrin Hatch (1934), and David Diamond (1915).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Lawrence Weiner ranks 96. Before him are Frederic Remington (1861), Washington Allston (1779), John Frederick Kensett (1816), Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877), Charles Dana Gibson (1867), and Theodore Robinson (1852). After him are John Marin (1870), Thomas Hart Benton (1889), Edward Ruscha (1937), Arthur Dove (1880), William Merritt Chase (1849), and Kenyon Cox (1856).

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