“What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.”
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John Baldessari
John Baldessari is an influential American artist born on June 17, 1931. Known for his unique artistic style and conceptual art works, his art often explores the relationship between art and life, reality and fiction. more
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