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John Baldessari - I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art - via @pixiepravda #johnbaldessari #Repost @textbased_visual_artists #baldessari #iwillnotmakeanymoreboringart #textart #conceptualart #conceptualartist #artandlanguage https://www.instagram.com/p/Clgw7ADox8p/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I want to share a story about John Baldessari, one of great figures of contemporary art. The one who wrote more than 1000 times: “I will not make anymore boring art” and how Raul in Cuba by chance found a book of him and changed his live. I think is very worth to see both videos

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To celebrate the release of staff favorite 'Everyday Play: A Campaign against Boredom,' we're running (well...) a little campaign! Check in each day this week for a preview of one of the book's games and life tips from artists, writers and thinkers. ⁠ ⁠ Today's spread concerns John Baldessari’s Cal Arts Post Studio Art Class Assignments, 1970:⁠ ⁠ Make up an art game. Structure a set of rules with which to play. A physical game is not necessary; more important are the rules and their structure. Do we in life operate by rules? Does all art? Or art rules, like tenant rules or art violations.⁠ ⁠ How can plants be used in art. Problem becomes how can we really get people to look freshly at plants as if they’ve never noticed them before. A few possibilities: 1. Arrange them alphabetically like books on a shelf; 2. Plant them like popsicle trees (as in child art) perpendicular to line of hill; 3. Include object among plants that is camouflaged; 4. Color palm tree pink; 5. Photo found growing arrangements; 6. Or a movie on How to Plant a Plant.⁠ ⁠ One person copies or makes-up random captions. Another person takes photos. Match photos to captions.⁠ ⁠ Disguise an object to look like another object.⁠ ⁠ Document change, decay, metamorphosis, changes occurring in time. Photograph same thing at various times during the day.⁠ ⁠ Photograph backs of things, underneaths of things, extreme foreshortenings, uncharacteristic views. Or trace them.⁠ ⁠ Describe the visual verbally and the verbal visually.⁠ ⁠ Repaired or patched art. Recycled. Find something broken and discarded. Perhaps in a thrift store. Mend it.⁠ ⁠ ⁠Read more about the book via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Published by @redstonepressbooks⁠ Edited by #JulianRothenstein. Foreword by #AndreyKurkov.⁠ ⁠ #everydayplay #johnbaldessari #johnbaldessarieverydayplay #johnbaldessariartassignments #johnbaldessariassignments #artistgames https://www.instagram.com/p/CaU0tGIF6U4/?utm_medium=tumblr

Baldessari points out that language has made-up rules that we all agree to follow. Conventional notions of art may be as ingrained, passed down, and unquestioned as rules of language, but artists like Baldessari aimed to show that they are equally arbitrary, and open to interpretation. Baldesssari described his conceptual works as “what I thought art should be, not what somebody else would think art would be. You know, received wisdom, what you would get in school. And so a lot of my work was about questioning this received wisdom

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