John Baldessari

John Baldessari , born on June 17th, 1931 with National City (California) is a conceptual artist American, représensant Post-modernistic current which resorts in particular to photography.

Biography

It gives up painting for photography in 1965. He considers that photography brings to him what painting offers to him.

Photography is a purely documentary means, with the manner of Billhook.

The image interests it more than graphic quality of the photograph.

He is a pioneer in the use of images recovered to create an original work.

If the image exists, it is not necessary to reproduce it. It is a visual poet. Its sensitivity brings it more literature than of the history closer to Article Its approach to bring an additional direction to literary expressions.

It wishes to create a shock by the assembly of these images. This contrast should cause magic. It is interested in images which represent difficult moments or express the brittleness of the beings.

Techniques

It uses only part of these collected photographs.

It carries out negative and the épreuvre is laid out within a framework.

It collects several types of images: - images of television. These images carry a title and thus constitute a data bank. - images of the cinema selected because the majority of people like these stereotypes. - official images. They will be re-used by affixing pastilles of color on the faces.

It explores the various photographic formats by diverting them from their formal use. For example, the panoramic one is used for photographs with the horizontal ones. John Baldessari uses the panoramic one for images taken with the vertical.

Works

Series Chart of California
Series National City
Series Composition for Violin and Voices (Male) , 1987 - Museum of Contemporary art of Lyon
Film Script

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