Donald Judd and Eva Hess

So, I didn't really understand the article. I read it a couple of times, and what I think I understand of it is that he thinks that there is something beyond what it is. In everything. It is more than just a rectangle, but corners, and space inside and then the atmosphere around the actual rectangle itself.

What is his new work that is neither sculpture nor painting? He said it has similarities, but differences as well. I guess that is the part that I don't understand.


Eva Hess:
I really like how she kind of puts it into perspective the role of women in art, and in life kind of. She talks of how we have the ability to succeed and how society wants us to and permits us to, but we also have so much that is holding us back. I think that she is talking more about women in general and life, and just relating it to women in the art world. We as women are given such important responsibilities and we have to take care of those responsibilities, because we are women. It is what makes us unique in one sense, and different in another. At times it is unfair, because there are things that only women can do, ie give birth.She talks about how we are given these blessings, and then expected to succeed in the world, just like men because we are given the same opportunities as men, now more so than when she wrote the article, yet we are still held back by our physical and mental responsibilities. She says that there is rarely a woman who has acted like a woman and not a man that has succeeded in the art world. I think that this is true. Society is more accepting of men and they methods, therefore, when a woman comes in, she can get more accomplished by taking on the "characteristics" of a male worker, or artist. She feels that women, herself, cannot succeed. She says that she has self esteem problems, which what woman doesn't? Even those who plaster themselves all over every kind of media naked have self esteem problems, otherwise why would the be there?

Also, her untitled statements are really interesting. I really like the one from 1969, because it is a factual rundown of what she thought, what she went through. I was impressed because I don't think that I would be able to give a summary of the things that I thought, at least if I did, I would completely expose that fact that I am kind of crazy, and that my thoughts are very hard to make sense of.