1973
John Baldessari
Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts)
John Baldessari
Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts), 1973
Offset print, 32.2 x 24.4 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
2011-029-006
© John Baldessari
Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts), 1973
Offset print, 32.2 x 24.4 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur
2011-029-006
© John Baldessari
b. 1931 (National City, US) – 2020 (Los Angeles, US)
The conceptual artist John Baldessari worked with visual mass media since the late 1960s. Using cut-ups and paint, he combined and adapted found visual and textual materials, honing their narratives in his own ways. In his portfolio work Some Narrow Views (Either Tall or Wide) Baldessari selects rectangular or square formats into which are placed a single film still with specific words beneath, thereby opening up the images to new meanings and interpretations.