A Retrospective John Baldessari
6 - Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (1973) 7 - The Sprinters (1982) 8 - Paradise (1989-1990) 9 - Falling Star (1989-1990) 10 - Equestrian (Flesh) in Brackets with Orange Showdown )1992) 11 - Untitled II (2623 Third Street Santa Monica) (2000) 12 - Untitled III (2623 Third Street Santa Monica) (2000) 13 - Untitled IV (2623 Third Street Santa Monica) (2000) 14 - Trotella in Carpione - Locanda Del Lago - Santa Monica, CA (2000) 15 -Overlap Series: Double Motorcyclists and Landscape (2003 16 - Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Two): (Yellow) Face with (Blue) Nose, (Flesh) Hands, (Black) Dress and Chair (2006) 17 - Noses & Ears (2006) 18 - For LACMA (2008) 19 - Raised Eyebrows/Furrowed Foreheads (Red, White, and Blue) from Artists for Obama (2008) 20 - Brain / Cloud (With Seascape and Palm Tree) (2009) 21 - Give me a B, give me an A ...& etc (2009) 22 - Brain / Cloud (With Seascape and Palm Tree) (2012) 23 - Eight Soups (2015) 24 - Karl Lagerfeld (2015) 25 Person with Guitar (green) (2015) 26 - Boss (2018)
John Anthony Baldessari (June 17, 1931 – January 2, 2020) was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Initially a painter, Baldessari began to incorporate texts and photography into his canvases in the mid1960s. In 1970 he began working in printmaking, film, video, installation, sculpture and photography. He created thousands of works which demonstrate and, in many cases, combine the narrative potential of images and the associative power of language within the boundaries of the work of art. His art has been featured in more than 200 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. His work influenced that of Cindy Sherman, David Salle, Annette Lemieux, and Barbara Kruger among others.
Who was Baldessari? He was an influential conceptual artist who is considered one of those that transformed Los Angeles into a contemporary art center through his work and decades of teaching there, at California Institute of the Arts from 1970 to 1988 and at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1996 to 2005.
Conceptual Art 1973 Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line
Conceptual Art 1982 The Sprinters
Conceptual Art , 1989-1990 Paradise
Conceptual Art 1989-1990 Falling Star
Pop Art 1992 Equestrian (Flesh) in Brackets with Orange Showdown
Conceptual Art 2000 Untitled II (2623 Third Street Santa Monica)
Conceptual Art 2000 Untitled III (2623 Third Street Santa, 2000
Conceptual Art 2000 Untitled IV (2623 Third Street Santa Monica)
Conceptual Art 2000 Trotella in Carpione - Locanda Del Lago - Santa Monica, CA
Conceptual Art 2003 Overlap Series: Double Motorcyclists and Landscape
Conceptual Art 2006 Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Two): (Yellow) Face with (Blue) Nose, (Flesh) Hands, (Black) Dress and Chair
Conceptual Art 2006 Noses & Ears
Conceptual Art 2008 For LACMA
Conceptual Art 2008 Raised Eyebrows/Furrowed Foreheads (Red, White, and Blue) from Artists for Obama
Conceptual Art 2009 Brain / Cloud (With Seascape and Palm Tree)
Conceptual Art 2009 Give me a B, give me an A ...& etc
Conceptual Art 2012 Eight Soups
Conceptual Art 2015 Karl Lagerfeld
Conceptual Art 2015 Person with Guitar (green)
Conceptual Art 2018 Boss
A Retrospective John Baldesari