JOHN BALDESSARI THE STÄDEL PAINTINGS

By destroying all of his paintings created from 1953 to 1966 in 1970, Baldessari paved the way for an independent and unmistakeable pictorial style between painting and photography, text and image. He employs classic Modernist pictorial strategies such as montage and the integration of everyday elements in order to confront these with artistic practices of the post-war avant-gardes, such as di scourses on consumerism and the media.