Jhon was born on June 17th 1931, he was an American conceptual artist who was known for his photography and appropriate images. Baldessari began to incorporate texts and photography into his canvases in the mid-1960s. In 1970 he began working in printmaking, film, video, installation, sculpture and photography. His work was influenced by Cindy Cherman, David Salle, and Barbara Krugar among many others.
His work "wrong"
In 1967 he created the "wrong" series. The most famous of which titled ‘wrong’ shows an image with poor composition which matches with the text ‘wrong’ bellow the photograph. The message that Baldessari was trying to say in the image is 'why should we conform to conventional aspects of art or photography, why does our work have to be judged? The interesting fact is that an idea cannot be wrong or right as it is executed as a personal response.' John Baldessari once stated: "You don't want anyone to say 'You can't do that!' But you do get a lot of that in New York. One of the healthiest things about California is - 'Why not?'
Here is some of his work;
Some people had put their opinions why it was bad, and this is what they wrote,
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
Here are the photos that I had tried to take which are 'bad' using hypstermatic on the ipods, and I tried to break as many as possible of the "photographic rules".
Here is my opinion of why i thought that the photo 'wrong' was called wrong.
evaluation
This photo is 'wrong' because the focus is very bad, and also it is blurry which means the lens was moved before the photo was taken. Also it has bad composition and the angles are set diagonally and you can't completely see what the object/thing is. The photo is very boring and uninteresting to look at, so there is no point of it being a photograph because people want to look at photos and feel something or it should remind them of something, so it has to be good to look at.