John Baldessari, a gentle giant of Conceptual art, has died. He was 88. Arguably the most influential Conceptual artist of his era, Baldessari also shaped a generation of talent while teaching at UCLA and ArtCenter.
John Baldessari, a gentle giant of Conceptual art whose irreverent questions about the nature of art brought him international acclaim and shaped a generation of younger artists, has died. He was 88.
“John Baldessari has worked in the gap between paintings and camera images for the last 45 years,” Knight wrote, noting that “his marvelous rummaging around in that fissure” demonstrated that “the gap” was fertile territory and “often a strange and funny place to be.” Still, he grew disillusioned by the art world and worried about the corruption of money. When he began his career in the art world, he said in 2012, there was no expectation of becoming wealthy. “You did it because you believed in it. It wasn’t about money. Now, it’s all about money.”
Baldessari labored in near anonymity as an artist and teacher until 1970, when he hauled most of his pre-1966 works to a crematorium and burned them in a documented performance. By then, his text-and-image paintings had caught the eye of fellow artists and a few dealers, as well as Paul Brach, dean of CalArts, who hired him as an instructor at the fledgling, experimental school.
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