John BaldessariHegel's Cellar Portfolio1986
1986
About the Item
- Creator:John Baldessari (1931, American)
- Creation Year:1986
- Dimensions:Height: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Width: 26.5 in (67.31 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU3292787152
John Baldessari
Although Conceptual artist John Baldessari is best known for the richly provocative juxtapositions of photographic images and text that characterize his prints and paintings, he actually had something of a traditional art world upbringing — if such a thing exists.
Born in Southern California, Baldessari earned several art degrees, from art education to art history to painting. He also taught art at various institutions such as the California Institute of the Arts throughout his life. Among his many students were David Salle, Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley. While helping to shape the art world in Los Angeles, he simultaneously developed his own name as an artist.
In the 1950s, Baldessari’s works were primarily semiabstract paintings, but during the late 1960s, he began to distance himself from painting, as he bristled at the idea of limiting art to a single medium. Baldessari decided to take his career in a dramatically different direction. He burned all his paintings at a funeral home in San Diego, then incorporated the ashes into cookie dough, producing (nonedible) baked goods for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
“It was a very public and symbolic act,” he said, “like announcing you’re going on a diet in order to stick to it.”
From that point on, Baldessari took on an MO of experimentation, dabbling in mediums from video to printmaking to sculpture. “I just stare at something and say: Why isn’t that art? Why couldn’t that be art?” he said in an interview in 2008.
The works for which Baldessari is most highly regarded, however, are striking collages of images and text — many of which are seemingly nonsensical — such as Tom’s Hand Grips the Steering, Wheel… (2015), in which the title’s text is displayed beneath a hippopotamus. As such is his body of work: bringing a sense of joviality to the sometimes too-serious world of Conceptual art.
Before he died in 2020, Baldessari was honored with the 2014 National Medal of Arts Award, the Americans for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and more.
Find original John Baldessari art on 1stDibs.
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: New York, NY
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 14 days of delivery.
- Man, Dog (Blue), Canoe/Shark Fins (One Yellow), Capsized BoatBy John BaldessariLocated in New York, NYIt is hard to characterize John Baldessari’s varied practice—which includes photomontage, artist’s books, prints, paintings, film, performance, and installation—except through his ap...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Figurative Prints
MaterialsEtching
- Helmsmen (With Various Fires)By John BaldessariLocated in New York, NYIt is hard to characterize John Baldessari’s varied practice—which includes photomontage, artist’s books, prints, paintings, film, performance, and installation—except through his ap...Category
20th Century Conceptual Prints and Multiples
MaterialsPhotogravure
- The First $100, 000 I Ever MadeBy John BaldessariLocated in New York, NYIt is hard to characterize John Baldessari’s varied practice—which includes photomontage, artist’s books, prints, paintings, film, performance, and installation—except through his ap...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Prints and Multiples
MaterialsLithograph
- Second Quartet: Black and WhiteBy Mel BochnerLocated in New York, NYMel Bochner is recognized as one of the leading figures in the development of Conceptual art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. Emerging at a time when painting was increasingly dis...Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual More Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- My WorkBy Joan SnyderLocated in New York, NYJoan Snyder has been called an autobiographical, even confessional artist, who draws from her experiences and surroundings to create her paintings. While her subjects vary widely, Sn...Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Prints
MaterialsEtching, Woodcut
- Juicy Little Passion (Blue)By Paul Henry RamirezLocated in New York, NYPaul Henry Ramirez has shown throughout the United States and Europe. He has had numerous one-person museum exhibitions including the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, the Whit...Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
MaterialsEtching
- Andrés Nagel - UNTITLED 5 Etching & Collage Spanish Contemporary ConceptualismLocated in Madrid, MadridAndrés Nagel - UNTITLED 5 Date of creation: 1991 Medium: Etching and collage on Paper Edition: 75 Size: 98 x 69 cm Condition: In very good conditions and never framed Observations: E...Category
1990s Conceptual Abstract Prints
MaterialsEtching
- Nippur Temple - Original Etching by Walter Valentini - 1976Located in Roma, ITNippur Temple is a colored etching realized by the contemporary artist Walter Valentini in 1976. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered ...Category
1970s Conceptual Abstract Prints
MaterialsEtching
- Large Conceptual "Last Book of Life" Photo Etching 1970s Pop Art PhotographBy Les LevineLocated in Surfside, FLLast Book of Life. (Photos from a dinner of Richard Nixon’s with Chou En Lai’s various views of Chinese chopsticks) Photograph etchings Printed on Stone...Category
1970s Conceptual Abstract Prints
MaterialsEtching, Photogravure
- Large Conceptual "Last Book of Life" Photo Etching 1970s Pop ArtBy Les LevineLocated in Surfside, FLLast Book of Life. (Photos from a dinner of Richard Nixon’s with Chou En Lai’s various views of Chinese chopsticks) Photograph etchings Printed on Stonehedge black paper Hand signe...Category
1970s Conceptual Abstract Prints
MaterialsEtching, Photogravure
- Large Conceptual "Last Book of Life" Photo Etching 1970s Pop ArtBy Les LevineLocated in Surfside, FLLast Book of Life. Richard Nixon’s view of Chou En Lai’s chopsticks Photograph etchings Printed on Stonehedge black paper Hand signed, and numbered, by Levine in red pencil along t...Category
1970s Conceptual Abstract Prints
MaterialsEtching, Photogravure
- Large Conceptual "Last Book of Life" Photo Etching 1970s Pop ArtBy Les LevineLocated in Surfside, FLLast Book of Life. (Photos from a dinner of Richard Nixon’s with Chou En Lai’s various views of Chinese chopsticks) Photograph etchings Printed on Stonehedge black paper Hand signe...Category
1970s Conceptual Abstract Prints
MaterialsEtching, Photogravure