Father of California conceptualism. The Cremation Project (1970): burns all his paintings and bakes the ashes into biscuits. Paints banal sentences on canvases. Glues colored dots on photographed faces.
Key works
- The Cremation Project (1970)
- I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art (1971)
"I will not make any more boring art."
Further reading
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty
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Learning To Read with John Baldessari
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