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
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.
I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.
Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.
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.
I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.
After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is.