Here is a short, fresh and insightful video on Baldessari’s biography. I think it perfectly describes his way of working an shows his transition throughout the photography world. He made a very bold statement which stated: “I will not make any more boring art”. This became his theory for the rest of his life.
Not only do I think that his work with abstract spots amazing, but I believe his earlier pictures are very creative. Examples include:
I really like the both of these. The top one shows a picture which is more based on designs and colour pop. Whilst the image below shows a performance aspect. He actually threw several orange balls into the air to create this image, therefore I’m guessing that this picture was edited to place all the three balls in a row. They sort of look like oranges drifting in mid air.
I would like to respond to his work. I’ll be looking at people. My inspiration is the picture above. The man pictured is doing ‘the walk cycle’. Walk cycles are created frame by frame. Essentially they continue forever if you keep going back to the beginning of the cycle. Only six frames were used for Muybridge’s one above, therefore the full walking strides aren’t completed. Having said that, walk cycles are really difficult to capture. You must have precise and advanced knowledge to create one. 
