Create like John Baldessari

Have fun and feel free to share your creations on social media. Tag us @ModernaMuseet and use #VerkstanModernaMuseet.

You can find the video on Moderna Museet’s YouTube channel

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John Baldessari was an American artist

• John Baldessari lived between 1931-2020. When he was a child he used to visit county fairs with his father every year.
• His father loved looking at agricultural machinery and tractors.
• But John hated it, instead, he would look at all the paintings at the fair and wrote down the names of the painter he liked the most.
• He often asked himself : What is art?
• John believed that ideas were what was most important.
• He didn’t believe that artists had to make all the art themselves.

• Once another artist said: “Conceptual art is pointing at things”. That sentence gave John an idea.
• He asked an artist friend to point at interesting things that were around him.
• He photographed the friend pointing. And then he asked sign painters if they wanted to paint his photographs. They wanted to.

Create like an artist – from home!

Come along one of the museum’s educators and get inspired by artists and artworks at Moderna Museet. We will create artworks from things we might already have at home. There is no right or wrong, ugly or beautiful when you are creating. But there is one rule – there are no rules.

Welcome to the Workshop!

In the museum’s YouTube series “Create like an artist” you will receive tips on how you can create your own artworks at home inspired by artists in Moderna Museet’s collection. New episodes are released every Sunday. The episodes are approximately 3–5 min long and are aimed at children between 4 and 9 years old.

Feel free to share your creations on social media. Tag us @ModernaMuseet and use #VerkstanModernaMuseet.

Moderna Museet’s YouTube channel