He had smeared a line
of cadmium red light on a strip of masking tape that divided a vertical canvas painted cadmium red deep into two halves, creating a bilaterally symmetrical image of solid color.
Then I mixed a basic skin color
of Cadmium Red Light, Yellow Ochre and Titanium White.
When I came here [to South Carolina] and beg [a] n studying with Jean Pilk, who had studied for years with Daniel Greene, [she] directed me to use a palette
of Cadmium Red light with Yellow Ochre as a base.
Not exact matches
Mr. Judd's move to three dimensions is summarized by two very different works from 1963: an aluminum - faced relief drilled with a grid
of tiny holes whose top and bottom edges curve outward aggressively, and a floor box painted
cadmium red light for maximum visual effect.
The images produced by these methods yield a shimmering interplay between closely aligned colors, such as the
light and medium
Cadmium reds of Red Curve (State 2)(Fig. 4), or create startling effects
of depth as in his black - and - white Rivers series.
Photo: John Jerome; Donald Judd, untitled, 1961, Liquitex and sand on plywood, with routed lines, 48 x 96 in; Donald Judd, untitled, 1961 - 1978, woodcut in ivory black on offset paper, 22 x 30.5 in; Donald Judd, untitled, 1962, oil and wax on canvas, 69 x 101 3/4 in; Donald Judd, untitled, 1963,
Cadmium red light and black oil on wood with galvanized iron and aluminum, 50 x 42 x 5 1/2, installed on the Fifth Floor
of 101 Spring Street, New York.
Images from top to bottom: Installation view
of Don Judd, Green Gallery, New York, December 17, 1963 - January 11, 1964; Poster for Don Judd, Green Gallery, New York, December 17, 1963 - January 11, 1964; Donald Judd, untitled, 1963,
cadmium red light and black oil on wood with galvanized iron and aluminum; Donald Judd, untitled, 1963,
cadmium red light oil on wood and purple enamel on aluminum.
Visually anchored by winding areas
of yellow and crimson on the right and left respectively, the painting bursts with
cadmium red, olive and forest greens,
light gray, and the occasional dash
of deep blue.
Colours: Ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, oxide
of red, cerulean blue, raw sienna, manganese violet, white, lemon yellow, kings blue
light, cobalt blue, naples yellow,
cadmium yellow, alizarin crimson, paynes grey.
The Green Gallery had the first exhibitions
of Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptures, the first exhibition
of Donald Judd's
cadmium red light sculptures and the first three shows
of Robert Morris's work.
LB: My first palette consisted
of, going around from the bottom left
of the palette and moving along the outer edge to the top right or middle
of the right edge: titanium white, zinc yellow,
cadmium yellow
light, naples yellow, yellow ochre, alizarin crimson,
cadmium red light, venetian
red, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, cerulean blue, virdian green, chromium oxide green, ivory black, burnt sienna, raw umber.