John Baldessari
John Baldessari
John Anthony Baldessariis an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth17 June 1931
CountryUnited States of America
art museums illustration
The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.
art thinking trying
Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)
ideas vaudeville flaws
The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.
photography cameras worst
Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.
art thinking should-have
I can't imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don't feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer. I'm very happy doing what I'm doing. I think somehow I know that I should have a larger vision of art, but I can't think of what that would be.
vices should vice-versa
Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable.
photography art figures
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
art simple goal
That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.
thinking interesting my-friends
Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.
art wells
Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?
smart successful work-out
If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.
definitions normal why-not
I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?
art doctors sick
I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.
artist way findings
Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.