Donald Judd ‘Specific Objects,’ 1964
Three dimensions are real space. That gets rid of illusionism and of literal space, space in and around marks and colours – which is riddance of one of the salient and most objectionable relics of European art. The several limits of painting are no longer present. A work can be as powerful as it can be thought to be. Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface. Obviously, anything in three dimensions can be any shape, regular or irregular, and can have any relation to the wall, floor, ceiling, room, rooms or exterior or none at all. Any material can be used, as is or painted.
Judd ‘Specific Objects’ 1964 – creating a manifesto for his own work.
