Turrell didn’t want to make another artwork that simply reflected light. Turn off the lights in the room, and the Caravaggio is as black as everything else. The painting almost seems to generate its own light. Think of one of Caravaggio’s great glowing paintings. Painters are always trying to reproduce the effects of light in their paintings. James Turrell had a related idea about light. His answer was to start making actual cubes, wood boxes that were every bit the cubes they were pretending to be.
Judd didn’t like this kind of pretending. The artist has painted the cube because that is what abstract artists are supposed to do, make abstract shapes with paint. Judd thought the painted cube wasn’t credible because the cube isn’t really a cube it is paint on a surface pretending to be a cube. A fair amount of their meaning isn’t credible.” Think of an austere abstract painting that shows a black cube on a pure white surface. Why, they asked, do we make paintings and sculptures at all? In 1965, Donald Judd wrote an influential article called “Specific Objects.” He wrote, “Painting and sculpture have become set forms. They were even tired of abstract work in painting and sculpture. They’d rejected the idea that art should try to represent what we see in the real world: sky, trees, buildings, people. They didn’t want to make traditional paintings or sculptures. It was a time when artists were dissatisfied with art objects. He was part of the Light and Space movement that came out of Los Angeles in the 1960s. James Turrell has been working with light for a long time. Turrell calls the work “Aten Reign.” It is museum as light sculpture.
The openings between the floors are covered with fabric. The artist James Turrell has transformed the spiral into a giant art installation. The spell is broken when the guard finally says, “Everybody up off the floor.” We’ve all been lying on the floor of the Guggenheim Museum in NYC, the famous spiral building.
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