{"id":9328,"date":"2012-05-16T20:32:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T03:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2012-05-24T15:42:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T22:42:09","slug":"a-brief-history-of-john-baldessari-narrated-by-tom-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2012\/05\/16\/a-brief-history-of-john-baldessari-narrated-by-tom-waits\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of John Baldessari: Narrated by Tom Waits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here is a short humorous biopic about legendary Los Angeles artist John Baldessari. It was directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman as a commission from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It’s wonderfully narrated by Mr. Tom Waits who was apparently picked by Baldessari for the job. If I have criticism of Baldessari, it would probably be that he has too much fun making art. Actually I’m not kidding. It’s a harsh criticism from where I stand. But I still like his work. I know his printer in downtown Los Angeles. He lets me stop by now and then to see what’s cooking on his great big old-fashioned printing press. In fact, I am the proud owner of an original signed Baldessari artist’s proof. It makes me smile with confusion whenever I walk past it. Despite Baldessari’s obvious enthusiasm for making conceptual art, there’s a lurking seriousness underneath all those colored dots and old time movie stills. He makes art in the margin between painting and filmmaking.<\/p>\n

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Here is a short humorous biopic about legendary Los Angeles artist John Baldessari. It was directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman as a commission from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It’s wonderfully narrated by Mr. Tom Waits who was apparently picked by Baldessari for the job. If I have criticism of Baldessari, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,1452,1314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-artist-2","category-documentary-film"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t