Pop-Conceptualist John Baldessari is 80 years old this year.
L.A. slickness certainly predominates here (the artist operates out of Santa Monica). Early on, Baldessari seemingly decided that he would out-Warhol Warhol or die trying.
The last of these post-war modernists are busily dying off now – and they suddenly look quite different with mortality invading their flat shadowless representations.
