Donald Judd
Donald Judd
Donald Clarence Juddwas an American artist associated with minimalism. In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy. It created an outpouring of seemingly effervescent works that defied the term "minimalism". Nevertheless, he is generally considered the leading international exponent of "minimalism," and its most important theoretician through such seminal writings as "Specific Objects"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth3 June 1928
CityExcelsior Springs, MO
CountryUnited States of America
There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.
Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.
I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period.
I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.
Color, to continue had to occur in space.
In terms of existing, everything is equal.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.
And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a small garden of plants that stay green all year. The winter is bleak. This place is primarily for the installation of art, necessarily for whatever architecture of my own that can be included in an existing situation, for work, and altogether for my idea of living.
If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.
Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.