Monday, 15 February 2016

Donald Judd - Specific Objects

Brancusi - most famous sculpturist of 20th century 



Jasper Johns, False Start, 1959


literalising colours - colous as words
lack of depth   vs Cezanne - illusion, depth, colour can be abstract




Judd - a 'specific object'


Painter Carl Andre not using square format of square canvasses. Removed the subject. Metallic paint.




Judd -  recognition of industrialisation

Lee Bontecou, sculpture/painting 'specific object'

Yayoi Kusama - compulsion furniture (accumulation) 1964
going beyond specific object, neither painting nor sculpture


Judd's essay 'specific objects' mentions these

Claes Oldenberg, small yellow pie, 1961
what is it?



very specific object

Dan Flavin - 1963, pink out of a corner, flourescent light 


Claes Oldenberg - giant light switch made of vinyl

Judd 'Relief' 1961


Judd, Untitled,1967