Literalist Art and Theatrical Presentation of Art

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Robert Morris and Donal Judd are both literalist artists. The concept that a literalist artist follows is one of exact representation. Therefore, the ideas of being universal, ubiquitous and forms of illusion are eliminated from their practices. However, something that both men see as crucial to the development of an art piece is shape. I believe this is not speaking exclusively about how a piece of art "looks" after it has been assembled as a whole, but also of the shapes that went into creating the structure or art piece. In the article, "Art and Objecthood" Fried says that the pieces that go together to create the piece are as important or more important than the object that is created when joining them together. He states, "...I want to say, in the mutual and naked juxtaposition of the I-beams, girders, cylinders, lengths of piping, sheet metal, and grill that it comprises rather than in the compound object that they compose. This is interesting because attention is normally drawn to the completed object made and not the elements that were used in the creative process.
Included with the concept of shape is the size of it as well. Using the shape and size of an object to create a situation that attracts attention to both the object, space, and the viewer is also part of literalist art.