about the quoted person:An important art critic and sculptor, Donald Judd has come to personify Minimalism, the movement that developed during the mid-1960s in reaction to the organic and emotive qualities of Abstract Expressionism. Whether figurative, biomorphic, or geometric, sculpture before that time had traditionally been carved or modeled. Minimalist sculptures, however, were often machine crafted in precise or slightly varied rhythms. The resulting industrial look emphasized the sculptor's concern with mass, density, color, and form rather than gesture, narrative, or autobiography. Although made by hand of scrap wood, Judd's earliest sculptures startled the art world with the bold simplicity of their reductive geometric shapes when first exhibited in 1963-64 at a New York gallery.