Who is John Baldessari?
John Baldassari is a conceptual artist. He creates art using photographs on canvases, and texts on canvases, and sometimes, he even uses photographs and texts on canvases. He is also known for putting dots all over his pictures. In 1970, John Baldessari cremated all his work that he had made from 1953 - 1966, and called that " The cremation project" . He has an odd attitude to his art, and believes that " talent is cheap" . He is quite experimental with his art, he plays around a lot and sort of stumbles upon unique ideas. For this lesson, we were given a piece of art of his called " Wrong" , and asked to jot down why we thought this piece was " wrong" . We then discussed it with the class. |
These are some of the things people said:
- There was too much contrast.
- The camera was too far away from the man, you couldn't see him clearly.
- The picture is blurry.
- Some of the objects are cropped out of the picture.
- It's boring
- There was too much contrast.
- The camera was too far away from the man, you couldn't see him clearly.
- The picture is blurry.
- Some of the objects are cropped out of the picture.
- It's boring
- - It has no colour and is very simple
- - There is nothing imaginative about it
- - It is pointless
We were then asked to make our own "wrong" photos:
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I think this lesson went well because we came up with a list of rules about the things we should never do when taking a photo. We then went out and took photos, doing all the things the rules said we shouldn't do, and somehow, the photos we took were so wrong that they were almost right.
I think this lesson went well because we came up with a list of rules about the things we should never do when taking a photo. We then went out and took photos, doing all the things the rules said we shouldn't do, and somehow, the photos we took were so wrong that they were almost right.
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It would be even better if we had been able to take photos of more interesting things, maybe if we had gone out of school, as this would give us a wider range of objects, however, considering the rules of the task, I understand why we didn't; the subject of the photo isn't necessary, as this was an exploration of the ways to take a photo.