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Donald Judd, Untitled, 1966
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“I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you
paint a painting with brush strokes. It’s all right, but it’s already
done and I want to do something new. I didn’t want to get into something
which is played out and narrow. I want to do as I like, invent my own
interests. Of course, that doesn’t mean that people who, like Newman,
still paint are worn out. But I think that’s a particular kind of
experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass,
you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment. I
think what I’m trying to deal with is something more long range than
that in a way, more obscure perhaps, more involved with things that
happen over a longer time perhaps. At least it’s another area of
experience.”
Donald Judd, Untitled, 1968.
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“Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or
popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves
the artist’s artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a
free-for-all. The one struggle in art is the struggle of artists
against artists, of artist against artist, of the artist-as-artist
within and against the artist-as- man, -animal, or -vegetable. Artists
who claim their artwork comes from nature, life, reality, earth or
heaven, as ‘mirrors of the soul’ or ‘reflections of conditions’ or
‘instruments of the universe’, who cook up ‘new images of man’ – figures
and ‘nature-in-abstraction’ – pictures, are subjectively and
objectively, rascals or rustics.”
Judd spring in Winterthur.