Four Hands and a Baseball Bat Edition:Ed 43-45 - Joe La Placa

- Joe La Placa

and pleasure in the act of painting

The Essl Museum

I concerned myself with ideas and aesthetics not permitting technique to overcome the concept in print making I found a wider

Four Hands and a Baseball Bat Edition:Ed 43-45 - Joe La PlacaTo commemorate the 40th anniversary of Lincoln Center Education, a pioneering, international leader in arts education, renowned visual artist John Baldessari has created the limited edition print Four Hands and a Baseball Bat (2015), a clever visual pun on what it means to play. The grainy image harkens back to the glory days of baseball. Baldessari has cropped out the immediately identifiable characteristics of the original image and zoomed in on a