John Baldessari: Wrong
John Baldessari is a famous contemporary artist. He is sometimes referred to as the Father of Conceptual Art. He sometimes uses photography in his work, often images that he has found and changed in some way. This video is a great introduction to his work and ideas.
Mr Nicholls showed us one particular image by the artist entitled 'Wrong'. We were asked to look carefully at the image and suggest why we thought it was given the title 'Wrong'.These are some of their comments people made:
These are some of the comments people made:
- The camera is out of focus
- Apparently the composition is wrong but I don't think there is anything wrong with it
- It's boring
- It has no colour and is very simple
- There is nothing imaginative about it
- It is pointless
- The man should be placed somewhere else
- Some of the objects (tree, car) don't fit in the frame
- There is nothing wrong with this image because art is everywhere and everything
- It's depressing
- Everything is wrong in this photo
- It's boring and the artist said that he would never make any more boring art
- He has used one of his 'mistakes' as a work of art
We were asked to write on the picture why we felt it might have been given the title 'Wrong'.
We were then asked to make a list of the hidden 'rules' of photography and what might make a photograph wrong. We attempted to take as many pictures as we could that deliberately broke as many of these 'rules' as possible.
Here are my images:
We were then asked to make a list of the hidden 'rules' of photography and what might make a photograph wrong. We attempted to take as many pictures as we could that deliberately broke as many of these 'rules' as possible.
Here are my images:
Which is MOSt WRONG?
I think that the image that is most wrong is number 4 because there is something blocking half of the picture and you would not know what is going on. It makes the image interesting and it is the perfect description of a wrong image.