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Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 - February 12, 1994) was a minimalist artist (a term he stridently disavowed) whose work sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1144x852, 114 KB) Title: Ohne Titel (Core Piece) Artist: Donald Judd (1928-1994) Year: 1969 Location: de: MÃ¼nchen en: Munich Country: de: Deutschland en: Germany Gallery: Pinakothek der Moderne Source: own work - photo taken by Oliver Kurmis on 17. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1144x852, 114 KB) Title: Ohne Titel (Core Piece) Artist: Donald Judd (1928-1994) Year: 1969 Location: de: MÃ¼nchen en: Munich Country: de: Deutschland en: Germany Gallery: Pinakothek der Moderne Source: own work - photo taken by Oliver Kurmis on 17. ... Donald Judds Untitled 1990 Anodised aluminium, steel and acrylic sculpture. ... Donald Judds Untitled 1990 Anodised aluminium, steel and acrylic sculpture. ... June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV in Roman) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... This article is about on art and design. ... Look up Artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Artist Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. ...

Judd was born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. He served in the Army from 1946-1947 as an engineer and then began his studies in philosophy 1948 at the College of William and Mary, later transferring to Columbia where he earned a BA in philosophy. While at Columbia he attended night classes at the Arts Students League in New York City. He earned a degree in philosophy from Columbia University and worked towards a master's in art history there under Rudolf Wittkower and Meyer Shapiro. He supported himself by writing art criticism for major American art magazines; his writing, like his art, was direct, forceful, controversial and influential. Excelsior Springs is a city located in Clay and Ray County, Missouri. ... Official language(s) English Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 21st 69,709 miÂ²; 180,693 kmÂ² 240 mi; 385 km 300 mi; 480 km 1. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... The College of William and Mary in Virginia is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States (after Harvard University). ... Nickname: The Big Apple Motto: Official website: City of New York Location [[Image:|250px|250px|Location of City of New York, New York]] Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ... Meyer Schapiro was a 20th century art historian. ...

His first solo exhibition, of expressionist paintings, opened in New York in 1957. His artistic style soon moved away from illusory media and embraced constructions in which materiality was central to the work. Humble materials such as metals, industrial plywood, concrete and color-impregnated Plexiglas became staples of his career. Most of his output was in freestanding "specific objects" (the name of his seminal essay of 1964), that used simple, often repeated forms to explore space and the use of space. In 1968 the Whitney Museum of American Art staged a retrospective of his work which included none of his early paintings. 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hot metal work from a blacksmith In chemistry, a metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily forms ions (cations) and has metallic bonds, and metals are sometimes described as a lattice of positive ions (cations) in a cloud of electrons. ... Plywood was the first type of engineered wood to be invented. ... Placing a concrete floor for a commercial building Installing rebar in a floor during a concrete pour In construction, concrete is a composite building material made from the combination of aggregate and cement binder. ... Structure of PMMA: (C5O2H8)n Structure of methyl methacrylate Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) or polymethyl-2-methylpropanoate is the synthetic polymer of methyl methacrylate. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Night view of Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art is an art gallery and museum in New York City founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. ...

In 1968 Judd bought a five-story building in New York that allowed him to start placing his work in a more permanent manner than was possible in gallery or museum shows. This would later lead him to push for permanent installations for his work and that of others, as he believed that temporary exhibitions, being designed by curators for the public, placed the art itself in the background, ultimately degrading it due to incompetency or incomprehension. This would become a major preoccupation as the idea of permanent installation grew in importance and his distaste for the art world grew in equal proportion.

Throughout the seventies and eighties he produced radical work that eschewed the classical European ideals of representational sculpture. Judd believed that art should not represent anything, that it should unequivocally stand on its own and simply exist. During the seventies he started making room sized installations that made the spaces themselves his playground and the viewing of his art a visceral, physical experience. His aesthetic followed his own strict rules against illusion and falsity, producing work that was clear, strong and definite. As he grew older he also worked with furniture, design, and architecture.

In the early seventies Judd started making annual trips to Baja California with his family. He was very affected by the clean, empty desert and this strong attachment to the land would remain with him for the rest of his life. In 1971 he rented a house in Marfa, Texas as an antidote to the hectic New York art world. From this humble house he would later buy numerous buildings and a 60,000 acre (243 km²) ranch, almost all carefully restored to his exacting standards. These properties and his building in New York are now maintained by the Judd Foundation and the Chinati Foundation. Marfa is a city located in Presidio County, Texas. ...

In 1976 he served as Baldwin Professor at Oberlin College in Ohio. Beginning in 1983, he lectured at universities across the United States, Europe and Asia on both art and its relationship to architecture. 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Oberlin College is a small but very highly respected liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. ... Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus (largest metropolitan area is Cleveland) Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 34th 116,096 kmÂ² 355 km 355 km 8. ...

In 1979, with help from the Dia Art Foundation, Judd purchased a 340 acre (1.4 km²) tract of desert land near Marfa, Texas which included the abandoned buildings of the former U.S. Army Fort D. A. Russell. The Chinati Foundation opened on the site in 1986 as a non-profit art foundation, dedicated to Judd and his contemporaries. The permanent collection consists of large-scale works by Judd, sculptor John Chamberlain, light-artist Dan Flavin and select others, including Frank Stella, Carl Andre and Claes Oldenburg. Judd's work in Marfa includes 15 outdoor works in concrete and 100 aluminum pieces housed in two painstakingly renovated artillery sheds. This page refers to the year 1979. ... Based in New York City, the Dia Art Foundation owns perhaps the leading collection of art from the 1960s and 1970s, including major works by Joseph Beuys, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, and Andy Warhol. ... An acre is an English unit of area, which is also frequently used in the United States and some Commonwealth countries. ... Marfa is a city located in Presidio County, Texas. ... Fort D. A. Russell was the name of two United States Military posts in the western United States. ... The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati is a contemporary art museum based upon the ideas of its founder, Donald Judd. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Chamberlain (born April 16, 1927) is an American sculpture. ... Ohne Titel (to Bob and Pat Rohm), 1970. ... Frank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter. ... Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) American minimalist artist. ... Soft Bathtub (Model)â€”Ghost Version by Claes Oldenburg 1966, acryllic and pencil on foam-filled canvas with wood, cord, and plaster. ...

Judd fathered two children, Flavin Starbuck and Rainer Yingling. He died in Manhattan of lymphoma in 1994.

In 2006, the Judd Foundation decided to auction off about 35 of his sculptures at Christie's in New York. The annnounced purpose of the sale was to build an endowment to support the permanent installation of Judd's works in Texas and New York. The sale will enable the Foundation to fulfill its mission: in his will, Mr. Judd stated, such "works of art which I own at the time of my death as are installed at 101 Spring Street in New York City, or in Marfa, Tex., will be preserved where they are installed." 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Christies auction house in South Kensington, London Christies is a world-famous auction house located in London. ...

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