I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
- John Baldessari
Born in 1931, John Baldessari is a leading artist from California. Growing up through the great depression, Baldessari was the son to a Danish descended mother who was a nurse and his father was a Catholic from the Dolomites which is now called Italy. Credits are towards his father for his inspiration and idea to become an artist from his father's attitude towards it. His father used to work I different trades and from such a young age Baldessari would assemble his father's materials and question why one material was chosen over another.
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Wrong (Composition)
Baldessari is interested in communicating his concept more than he is in creating something precious or unique. |
I loved the idea that somebody would just say that this is right and this is wrong. So I decided I would have . . . a work of art that was wrong- which seemed right to me. - John Baldessari
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In 1967 John Baldessari presented his ‘wrong’ series. He used a variety of photographic images attached by text. The most famous of which titled ‘wrong’ shows an image with poor composition with text ‘wrong’ below the photograph. The irony of the word is what makes the image so appealing, just clear judgment of the photograph.
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