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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 ...
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Donald Judd was an American artist, whose rejection of both traditional painting and sculpture led him to a conception of art built upon the idea of the object as it exists in the environment. Judd's works belong to the Minimalist movement, whose goal was to rid art of the Abstract Expressionists' reliance on the self-referential trace of the paint...
Judd's goal was to make objects that stood on their own as part of an expanded field of image making and that did not allude to anything beyond their own physical presence. As a result, his work, a...Unlike traditional sculpture, which was placed upon a plinth, thus setting it apart as a work of art, Judd's works stand directly on the floor and as a result, force the viewer to confront them acc...Judd combined the use of highly finished, industrialized materials, such as iron, steel, plastic, and Plexiglas - techniques and methods associated with the Bauhaus School - to give his works an im...Judd often presented his work in a serialized manner, a strategy that related to the reality of postwar, consumer culture as well as to the standardization and de-subjectifying nature of identical,...Childhood
Donald Judd was born on June 3, 1928, in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. He spent much of his early childhood on his grandparents' farm and continued to live in the Midwest with his parents until they finally settled in New Jersey.
Early Training
Judd served in the United States Army in Korea and subsequently attended the College of William and Mary, the Art Students League in New York, and Columbia University, where he obtained a B.S. in Philosophy in 1953. He went on to work toward a master's degree in Art History, studying under such well-known scholars as Rudolf Wittkower and Meyer Schapiro. Between 1959 and 1965, he supported himself by writing criticism for major art magazines, such as Art News, and in 1968, he bought a five-sto...
Mature Period
By 1963, Judd's presence on the international art scene was beginning to take hold and his second solo show was held at the Green Gallery in New York. In 1966, the influential dealer Leo Castelli organized what would be the first in a long series of solo exhibitions for the artist, which ensured his prominence in the New York art scene. From 1962 though 1964, Judd worked as an instructor at Brooklyn College. Judd served as a visiting artist at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire in 1966 before...
- American
- June 3, 1928
- Excelsior Springs, Missouri
- February 12, 1994
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“In most of my pieces,” Judd said, “there are no front or sides—it depends on the viewing position of the observer.” 2. Judd exhibited this work in his first solo exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (Don Judd, February 5–March 2, 1966), with other works from 1964 and 1965. It is the first multi-unit work that Judd made for ...
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.
Dec 6, 2023 · Donald Judd, Untitled. Donald Judd, Untitled. by Dr. Shana Gallagher-Lindsay and Dr. Beth Harris. Donald Judd, Untitled, 1969, ten copper units, each 9 x 40 x 31 inches with 9 inch intervals (Guggenheim Museum, New York) More Smarthistory images….
Sep 11, 2015 · Untitled is created by ten stainless steel and Plexiglas units, hung equidistant from each other between the floor and ceiling. Like most of Judd’s work, the piece uses a simple geometric language, and a machined, industrial look, avoiding any direct associations with outside objects. Judd had the boxes fabricated to his specifications, and ...
Sottsass and Judd each explored Minimalism and the effect of objects on their environment, but from strikingly different vantage points. Sottsass created functional objects with the aspiration of minimalist sculpture, while Judd’s sculptures use the language and materials of serial production and functionalist design.
