Donald Judd: Specific Objects
Donald Judd: Specific Objects
Sculptor
Painting is flat
All to do with space, to do with painting and sculpture
Illusion of depth – perspective, colour,
Paul Cezanne, known for creating a sense of depth, with no little depth.
Constantin Brancusi, is not to do with illusion it’s not creating anything illusive, just an object in space. Self contained, in space. A walk through the trees, very dull, in colour aka natural colours with greens, and blues. Reminds me of a Monet, of Water Lilies
The endless column is the same shape over and over again.
/ Open, extended and more or less environmental.
Jasper Johns, is a painting that quite never got underway. His work has the use of text involved, as on the False Start, painting you can see the words “Orange, Red, etc.” The words are of course colours. Turning the colours into words, Judd’s thinking what is going on here? Actually critiquing the rules of painting. Judd might call this a specific object, neither painting nor sculpture. It’s not a painting in the old sense of the word.
Frank Stella, Carl Andre, doing very interesting things with painting. He is not using the square format of a squared canvas; he has taken out the main focus paint of the canvas by taken out the middle. Also, uses metallic paint on the canvas. He used the enamel paint used on cars, instead of normal acrylic paint.
Lee Bontecou, Untitled, welded steel on canvas, black fabric and wire. This is between painting and sculpture, coming out from a canvas. Traditions in painting and sculpture have gone before.
Yayoi Kusama, Compulsion Furniture, Photocollage and Paint. Friend of Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol. Manic episodes as she’s in hospitals etc.
Claes Oldeburg, Small Yellow Pie, 1961 Muslin Soaked in plaster over wire frame painted with enamel. Really odd object, looks like a rock. However, it’s just painted plaster over a wired frame.
Dan Flavin, Pink out of a corner (to Jasper Johns), Fluorescent Light and metal fixture.
Using everyday objects to create things out of, one of the first ones which interested Donald Judd. In involves colour, like an optical illusion. It’s just a light bulb in a corner of a room.
Claes Oldenburg, Soft Switches – Made out of Vinyl filled with Dacron and canvas. It’s bright orange and hangs there on the wall. It’s a very peculiar object.
Donald Judds work itself, Oil on Composition board, mounted on wood with inset tinned steel baking pan. This is an object that is both painting and sculpture, very specific object.
Donald Judd: Medium, Lacquer on galvanized iron.
This is a very interesting object, that is it was a sculpture it would be free standing, however this is attached to the wall. This doesn’t particularly have a name, is it just a bunch of metal objects going up the wall, one by one? It’s not wood, or stone. It’s industrial materials.
Donald Judd: Untitled, Stainless Steel, plexiglass.
This does look like a sculpture. Industrial production in sculpture.
Not meant to be sculptures.
The interesting thing about Judd is that he experiments with colour. Like Flavin did with the fluorescent light bulbs, Judd used plexiglass to create pink shadows under his sculptures.
Donald Judd: 1991 Painted Aluminium. What is it? A painting or a sculpture? It’s starting to look like a piece of design, very big, very peculiar and beautiful objects.
Finally, Judd starts to create furniture. He created the Suite of five chairs, as these are from 1995.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0stpkzsNDU / Showed this clip
David Smith, Cubi XIX, Stainless Steel
This has the use of more shapes and these are joined up and not individual pieces. These are welded together, a composition. It is something that is meant to make you think about formation.