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Untitled. 1968. Donald Judd. American, 1928–1994. An influential practitioner of what would come to be called—much to his chagrin— Minimalism, Donald Judd preferred to describe his often sleek, industrially fabricated works as “specific objects,” neither painting nor sculpture as understood traditionally. His primary form became the ...
Judd began using thick horizontal and diagonal lines in the foreground of his paintings in 1961, as seen in the unfinished lines of untitled, 1961, or in the larger-scale gray lines of untitled, 1962. Selected Bibliography. Smith, Brydon, ed. Donald Judd: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Objects, and Wood-Blocks 1960–1974. Exh. cat.
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Donald Judd. Untitled. 1967. Judd once wrote, “The main virtue of geometric shapes is that they aren't organic, as all art otherwise is.”. Untitled is made of rectangular metal boxes: a simple geometric form the artist favored because he felt it carried no symbolic meaning. The spaces between the units are equal to each unit’s height.
Whyte Building4. This painting is one of the first works of Donald Judd’s to use a repeating form. Judd regularly used only one or two colors in his work from this period until the 1980s, when he introduced his painted aluminum pieces, of which untitled, 1984, is an early example. Line figured heavily into Judd’s paintings from 1959 to 1962.
Feb 27, 2020 · An installation view showing, in the foreground, “Untitled” (1963/1975); one of Judd’s earliest experimental objects (from 1961), left, with a baking pan sunk in its surface; and, right, a ...
Donald Judd. Untitled (2-L) 1961–69. Minimalist artist Donald Judd is known primarily for his work as a sculptor, but he began his career as a painter and writer of art criticism and theory. Although his earliest paintings of landscapes and figures are in a traditional style, Judd soon began to work in an abstract mode, and shortly thereafter ...
Donald Judd’s Untitled (stack pieces) is characteristic in its use of spare geometric forms, repeated to create a unified whole that calls attention to its physical size in relationship to the viewer. Like most Minimalists, Judd used industrial materials and processes to manufacture his work, but his preference for color and
