How feelings impacted the photography of John Baldessari
Emotions of a photographer can really affect the ideas and how we see a photograph. In John Baldessari’s photograph, “Wrong”, the mix of the photograph and text reflect on some of the feelings he experienced making this work. But could a bad artwork really be great?
The image shows a man on a street, standing right in front of a tree, giving the feeling thats its growing out of his head. When Baldessari was creating this photograph, he purpousfully made it “bad” or “wrong” to create an art commentary, composing the image with the word wrong. This funny contrast questions the rules of photogaphy and brings in a feeling of irony and humor. He brings people to think differently about art and that bending rules will not stop you from creating something great.
When Baldessari was creating this photograph, he purpousfully made it “bad” and “wrong” to create an art commentary, composing the image with the word wrong. It shows us that feelings really can put influence on artwork, making it valueble, even if it doesnt follow usual standards.
This shows us that feelings really can put influence on artwork, making it valueble, even if it doesnt follow usual standards.
Picture 1:
overexposure, the lighting is way to bright, taking away the vibant colors from the photograph, leaving it with bland but extremely bright colors and making it loose detail
Picture 2:
the proportions are kind of messed up, there is a very big empty space above the bathroom sign, which was made to be the subject of the photograph, and to the side there is an awkward area with a lot of color.
Picture 3:
extremely blurry image, way to close to subject, awkward angle very messy background and photo in general. Also not following the rule of thirds. Horrible framing, no sense of scale
Picture 4:
very messy picture, hard to figure out the subject, too much going on, too many colors. Not following rule of thirds, visible clutter
Picture 5:
no proper focus point, focused area is extremely empty, clattered composition, blurry,
Picture 6:
Subject is cut out, not the best composition, wrong use of negative space, weird tilted angle
Picture 7:
Subject is in a boring empty background, bland, not following the rule of thirds
Picture 8:
Not following the rule of thirds, empty on left right and top, bad lighting
Picture 9:
Unclear, over exposed, not a clear photograph, subject not clear
Picture 10:
Blurry, unclear, no subject, bad lighting, slow shutter speed
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