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Kissing Series: Susan. Nose Touching Palm Frond (Centered)
John Baldessari American
Not on view
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.’"
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