John Baldessari Baldessari John
John Baldessari Baldessari John A concise celebration of conceptualist legend John Baldessari's wry approach to image-makingOver the course of his 50-year career, John Baldessari never stopped…
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John Baldessari Baldessari John
A concise celebration of conceptualist legend John Baldessari's wry approach to image-makingOver the course of his 50-year career, John Baldessari never stopped exploring the seemingly infinite ways that words and images can be manipulated to create new layers of narrative meaning in art. Many of Baldessari's pieces directly address the viewer with hand-painted questions about the nature of art: in What Is Painting (1966-68), Baldessari asks through the canvas, "Do you sense how all the parts of a good picture are involved with each other, not just placed side by side?" This piece in particular seems to summarize Baldessari's focus on the re-contextualization of familiar Initially a more traditional painter, in the 1960s Baldessari found himself drawn to a combination of text and photography as the most effective vehicles for his creative intentions.