other artists

• Ana Mendieta
• Francis Bacon
• Hiroshi Sugimoto
• Alexander Calder
• Willem de Kooning
• Jean Dubuffet
• Alberto Giacometti
• Henri Matisse
• Henry Moore
• Gerhard Richter
• Auguste Rodin
• Ed Ruscha
• David Smith
• Ellsworth Kelly
• Nikki Lee
• Man Ray
• Arshile Gorky

in depth: John Baldessari

One of the most celebrated conceptual artists of his time, John Baldessari also taught at California Institute of the Arts for several decades. After abandoning traditional painting in the late 1960s, Baldessari began to explore the ways in which visual images establish and embody meaning. This investigation is manifested in painted words carefully chosen by the artist but rendered by a sign painter. As in Exhibiting Paintings, these texts typically describe the processes of exhibiting and evaluating art, offering a visual manifestation of a theoretical discourse. Baldessari also creates sequences of photographs that question the nature of human perception, and his video and mixed media works investigate the associations between visual experience and language.