2 January 2010
"If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn’t do art." John BaldessariFor more than fifty years, Baldessari has masterfully juxtaposed painting, photography, sculpture, and other media to probe how meaning is created through images, objects, and text. Tate Modern shows us how!
This wonderful retrospective of John Baldessari’s work, called Pure Beauty is a surprise hit! Interesting, educational and full of wonderfully dynamic and highly complex graphic compositions! The exhibition brings together everything from his early photo-and-text works, the irregular shaped and over-painted works of the 1990s, right through to his most recent pieces.
Fountain sculpture and head (with nose and ears)
John Baldesarri 2006
John Baldessari was born in California on 7th June 1931. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost conceptual artists, and his work often attempts to point out irony in contemporary art theory - (interesting :-). His art has been featured in more than 200 solo exhibitions in the U.S and Europe.
John Baldesarri 2004
