Untitled (1967 Judd sculpture)

Untitled is a sculpture created by American artist Donald Judd in 1967. It consists of a brass bar over a series of five steel boxes in Judd's signature cadmium red. The work is part of the permanent collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Description
The long brass bar is both hollow and open at both ends. The red boxes increase geometrically in size from right to left, with the fifth box being sixteen times the length of the first. Conversely, the voids between the boxes decrease geometrically, the leftmost space being one quarter the size of the rightmost. The actual fabrication was performed by the Bernstein Brothers firm.
Background information
By 1967, Judd was a leader of the Minimalism movement, albeit a reluctant one. He argued that the strict geometry of pieces like Untitled did not render them coldly mathematical or devoid of meaning, but rather focused attention on the materials themselves. His end goal was to remove all signs of the artist from the work, by employing such a strict formula and having it painstakingly crafted in an industrial shop, allowing the viewer to focus on the clean, sharp forms, simply "one thing after another".

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