Seeing an early art work by the canonized artists of contemporary art, one sees why they needed to be doing something other than representational art if they were to become celebrated. Donald Judd's 20 something work doesn't show any particular understanding of how or even of why one arranges forms. One senses him saying "I can draw," simply on the basis of our being able to identify the subject. But there is no reason why he draws this figure and nothing in particular that he does with the forms of the figure. It's hard to identify with the work in any but a cliched way.
If it seems a little cruel of me to make harsh critique of the work of someone so young, well compare his with the drawing in the next post. Read somebody else's review of it here at the site where I located the picture.
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