I love finding "new" artists (new to me, definitely not the art community) that somehow managed to release work long before what they were doing was "cool" or "stylish" or important for that matter, to anyone else. There are definitely many associational elements to Baldessari's works. If the different elements on the image plane of Baldessari's artwork had a functioning brain, I don't think they would necessarily associate why they are on the same image as the other. There is a lot of mystery in his work. His uses of shapes to disguise the "people" in the work prevent the work from having a narrative as to what is going on.
The piece I chose to show doesn't necessarily make my point clear. I think I chose it because 1) I like the piece and 2) I love playing guitar. But again, there is some ambiguity in the photo, once again preventing a straight narrative. We can certainly make our own associations as to the purpose of the piece.
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