ART EVENT TALK ABOUT JOHN BALDESSARI BY HEATHER MEQUIRE
John Baldessari's works critique society enriching us in the process. Baldessari has been painting for forty years after he worked with a class of challenged young men and discovered that they had an interest in art.
The main focus of this presentation was the work Blasted Aleogories, a piece that is divided into 6x6 frames and has a diagonal line crossing it. Each of these frames had a word that had some meaning to the artist painted on it. Baldessari believed that words and images were interchangeable. It was difficult to get a good look at the frames due to the nature of the presentation, it would nice to study the frames in detail. Baldessari's work was in the Neo-Dada style which reemerged in 1951 appropriating material from popular culture. Baldessari broke many of the rules with his work. This was an interesting presentation but I think it would be better if it were presented at the gallery that shows his work so that it can be studied in detail.