Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Artist Emulation: Donald Judd
I built a box to emulate Donald Judd's style, but the final box has a much more texture and impurities. While making the box, my artistic sensibilities expanded to understand what texture can do to sculptures by adding interesting effects if done correctly. I first used clay, but that proved to be more difficult than I imaged because it broke so often. I tried a lot of wood boxes before making this one. I applied putty to smooth out the box and make it minimalist, but it turned out to be an awesome texture.
I painted the inside red to make the box stand out and scorched the edges to add even more texture. I will carry on my use of texture to make sculptures stand out.
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Your reflection is exceptionally brief. In addition you provide little in the way of a process folio to show what degree of understanding you might have of the process, intentions, and style of Judd. You elude to an understanding of his minimalist nature in your reflection. Form our discussions in class I do have a sense that you understood the basics of Judd’s intentions. Yet I am still unclear as to what degree you came to relate to his approach and conceptual foundations.
ReplyDeleteI do quite like your work; you made many great decisions in your process of creating the work that led to its ultimate success. In many ways these decisions were in direct contrast to those Judd would have made, however. Judd was all about the mechanization of the world and how to employ that process in making works of art to comment on that aspect of the world. You also made a rather kinetic final piece given the way it teeters and floats upon the stand. This playful movement also seems to be in contrast to the solid industrial forms designed by Judd. You see, Judd wanted to remove the artist’s hand form the process of art completely. In many way syou have highlighted your hand. So, how are we left to evaluate the ultimate success of your project? Had a better sense of your understanding of Judd and a sense of your ability to analyze your formal decisions that I have pointed out, I would be able to see more clearly the merits of your work.
At the same time, I want to commend you for intuitive ability, perseverance and willingness to take risks. You allowed yourself to be guided by the process as opposed to fighting the materials into submission. When accidents occurred you learned from them. You exhibited an ability to observe, reflect and analyze. These are ultimately very important “habits” in your artistic development. Furthermore, you showed a dedicated approach to developing your technical ability as you showed vast improvement in your woodworking skills as you progressed through the project.
So, what I ask is that you come to take a more active role in the balancing of your intuitive sensibilities and your formal development. Work to strengthen your skills of “aesthetic valuing” by taking the time to more clearly align your intentions, the formal aspects present in the work, and your resulting decisions. This process will guide you to better harness your intuitive sensibilities as well as your ability to clearly and confidently defend your experiences and observations of art.
You started well with an understanding of Judd's work and a clear plan for how to emulate his artistic style. However, along the way, you continually expanded your ideas and began to play with different colors, textures, and materials, while continuing to reflect Judd's style. I really support your creativity with the use of paint for adding vibrant colors and scorching parts of the box with flame in order to change both color and texture. I think you were very inventive with the ways you made your project unique, and it really stands out.
ReplyDeleteI like what you did with the burning and such. And the red against white really makes it jump. Meta-pohorically. It doesnt actually jump, that would be silly. Anyway point is, i like your box thingy. Looks cool.
ReplyDeleteThe main box is excellent. It reminds me of marshmallows over a campfire and is really simple despite the moosh of textures and colors, playing back to the minimalist style of your artist. The only thing that confuses me a bit is the way the box is displayed and hung on the hook. I think the stand distracts the viewer from your box, which should be the main area of focus. Perhaps even just painting the base black or white would have solved that problem. As for the main box, as I said, I really do like how you took a simple figure and made it much more complex and interesting through your choice of styling.
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