Sol LeWitt

20. "Successful art changes our understanding of the conventions by altering our perceptions."

I believe that this Sol LeWitt's statement is true because our response matters the most for conceptual art when art challenges us aesthetically and visually, but I think that an artist is not only the one who makes successful art but we make it successful. “One and Three Chairs” by Joseph Kosuth, for instance, is about ways of expressing an idea, not a chair itself. When an artwork is installed in a setting such as museums or galleries, we assume that it is art, but if we don’t recognize that idea, we are unsuccessful to understand art and the artwork has no effect on us thus nothing is changed. The object does not change our understanding like a magic. We are the ones who change it by our reflection to the object. I believe that whether it is successful art or not is pretty much a matter of how we interpret it.