I just had these price stickers I was using for something else in some graphic way. John Baldessari is regarded of one of the world’s most influential living artists, and he has shaped contemporary art as we know it. Dots. And I put them on all the faces. John Baldessari, one of America's most influential conceptual artists, has died Written by Oscar Holland, CNN One of America's most influential contemporary artists John Baldessari has died aged 88. John Baldessari was an American Conceptual artist known for his pioneering use of appropriated imagery. Baldessari has said that his first use of the dot was a blank price sticker, available at any stationery store, which he used to de-face certain media images of bourgeois life that disturbed and infuriated him.
‘I was probably raised European without even realising it … I remember trying to shop my paintings around LA and not having any success,’ he said.
One day, John Baldessari made a simple discovery. John Baldessari in 2009. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. John Baldessari, Who Gave Conceptual Art a Dose of Wit, Is Dead at 88 Through his hybrid works and teaching, he helped build the Los Angeles art scene, mentoring a … This exhibition of around thirty pieces, is the first extensive presentation of his work in Sweden.
See available prints and multiples, photographs, and paintings for sale and learn about the artist. The American artist John Baldessari created conceptual art that asks questions about what art is, how it is made and what it looks like. Combining imagery from pop culture with linguistic explorations, his work challenged artistic norms and limits throughout his entire career. View John Baldessari’s 1,460 artworks on artnet. Initially trained as a painter, Baldessari began experimenting with text and photography and incorporating them into his work in the mid-1960s, evolving his practice through the 1970s into printmaking, film, books, sculpture and installation. John Baldessari was born in 1931 in National City, California and died in 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Important art & artworks analysis by John Baldessari including: Tips For Artists Who Want To Sell, I Am Making Art, Exhilarated, Noses and Ears & more in Conceptual Art & The Pictures Generation.