John Baldessary's Talk

John Baldessary
2/7/'07 St.Mary's college

John Baldessary's art session was interesting and relative to what we have learned - Dadaism and conceptual art. He showed a video clips of the back of the trucks passing by Los Angeles. It represents the movie culture in Los Angeles, and it comes to me as realism art of California. He also mentioned that in L.A. art is used as social and political aspects by showing or using the way of breaking rules. If you believe the concept of art, then the piece will be art, but if you don't believe it, then it's not art. This gives me a strong impact because the whole concept of the art is totally relying on the audience.

Nowadays more and more, language and materialism are engaged with pop art. The words, reorganization and desensation are getting popular in art. Language is no longer only a device to communicate but can be an artistic device, which is a fascinating idea for me. No matter a list of the words, or just some random characters, makes sense or not, the language itself can be art.
I used to think that art is something we draw, make, hear, touch or show, but also our daily item, not only material stuff but also language, custom, tradition or folk culture, and so on, everything can be art. This was a eye-widening information. Everything can be art - I like that!