Artwork Info
- Artwork title
- Man With Snake
- Artist name
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John Baldessari
- Date created
- 1990
- Classification
- photograph
- Medium
- color lithograph
- Dimensions
- 18 in. × 14 in. (45.72 cm × 35.56 cm)
- Date acquired
- 1994
- Credit
- Collection SFMOMA
Gift of Elsa Spaulding - Copyright
- © Estate of John Baldessari
- Permanent URL
- https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/94.317
- Artwork status
- Not on view at this time.
The works of John Baldessari challenge conventional modes of visual communication. His practice of eliminating visually relevant information, as in his paintings where colorful dots are strategically placed over human faces, invites new ways of looking at images.
A quick history of John Baldessari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU7V4GyEuXA
Baldessari on photography and truth: https://youtu.be/UCnzsLhER7g
Hear Baldessari sing lines from a Sol LeWitt exhibition catalog: https://youtu.be/-LleBVS5_ho
Related Playlist-Ways of Seeing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6LAgXLAqTH-MnQsggiWtvKSaibcJEyMF
Other Works by John Baldessari
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John BaldessariA Painting That Is Its Own Documentation -
John BaldessariColossus for the Harbour of the Mythical Island of Art (with Blue Roof and Lobster)
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John BaldessariThrowing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts) -
John BaldessariPerrier (With Figures)
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