ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Donald Judd, Abstract Expressionism, Negative Space
What is Minimalism?
○ A sculpture based movement by a generation of artists who had rejected
paitig as a ediu too coecialized, ad ith too uch baggage
after Abstract Expressionism
○ Lack of personal or expressive content
○ A simplified approach to sculpture in which the central principle is
presence and literalness, IE, what you see is what you get
○ Modularity-interchangeable forms
○ Repetition of forms-seriality
East Coast Minimalism
Donald Judd (Key Minimalist)
○ From Missouri, out of the way places, achieved success in NYC
○ Utitled Stack
■ Why it is that you can be an artist and get someone else to make
the work for you?
● Designed the art and has somebody make it
● Oversee installation
● Eliminated all pedestals
● Stressing weightless, translucent stacks where volume
between the blocks become part of the art itself
● Negative space becomes part of the piece itself-colonizing
space
● Negative space-creates shadows and weightlessness with
reflective surfaces
● Spring Street Soho Building, New York
○ One of the biggest districts for consumerism
○ Judd moved into the neighborhood, rented an entire floor to set up for a
factory; renovate entire space;
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Document Summary
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