We were unable to get back into Westminster Abbey today, so a few of us went to Tate Modern to do our second sketch there. In the 3D/architecture area of the galleries, I found a piece that interested me immediately. While I love abstract art, I also find art with a clear geometric order to be intriguing. I think that’s why this piece stuck out to me. I also enjoy perspective drawings, and the boxes showed perspective well. It actually reminded me of an exercise that we did in an intro to drawing class my freshman year at OSU. We would draw a series of ovals that were thick to thin and back to thick. Shading the ovals in the right places helped you see how your perspective of something that is truly round changes based on your elevation relative to the object. This aspect of the boxes was pretty obvious, so I thought it might be a cool sketch.
Untitled 1980, Donald Judd