Kissing Series: Susan. Nose Touching Palm Frond (Centered)
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Working in Southern California in the 1970s, John Baldessari was one of the decade’s most important interdisciplinary teachers and artists. Witty and irreverent, his earliest works are rife with visual puns. This wry triptych demands that viewers try to read the differences among the consecutive images—if in fact there are any. Baldessari recalled that an art professor once told him, "In composition, elements should either overlap or there should be some space between them; that it produced discomfort when things were tangential. He called this phenomenon ‘kissing.’"
Artwork Details
- Title: Kissing Series: Susan. Nose Touching Palm Frond (Centered)
- Artist: John Baldessari (American, National City, California 1931–2020 Los Angeles)
- Date: 1975
- Medium: Three gelatin silver prints
- Dimensions: Image: 8 × 8 in. (20.3 × 20.3 cm), each
Mount: 12 7/8 × 27 13/16 in. (32.7 × 70.6 cm)
Framed: 13 × 31 in. (33 × 78.7 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Promised Gift of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
- Curatorial Department: Photographs