In the early 1960s, in New York, a movement known as minimalism was born among artists that were deliberately rejecting contemporary art that they believe to be grown academic and boring. Younger artists began to rethink traditional examples of different mediums as a result of a generation of new ideas and rediscovered styles.
He developed a vision of art based on the idea of the material as it remains in the environment after rejecting both traditional sculpture and painting. Judd's works are a part of that movement, the Minimalist movement helped to free art from the Abstract Expressionists' dependence on the personality signature of the painter in order to create works that were emotionless. To complete this goal, artists like Judd produced works that were made entirely of industrialized, machine-made materials, ignoring the artist's hand and consisting of a single or repetitive geometric form. Judd's dimensional and modular works have frequently drawn criticism for their apparent lack of content; however, it is this apparent simplicity that challenges the definition of art and positions Minimalist artwork as a contemplative object, one whose symbolic and insistent appearance tells the act of viewing.
