Walking Forward-Running Past

John Baldessari, Walking Forward-Running Past, 1971, single-channel video, black and white, sound; 12:45 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the Ford Motor Company, 2007.33.8, © 1971 John Baldessari. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, NY
John Baldessari, Walking Forward-Running Past, 1971, single-channel video, black and white, sound; 12:45 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the Ford Motor Company, 2007.33.8, © 1971 John Baldessari. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, NY

Artwork Details

Title
Walking Forward-Running Past
Artist
Date
1971
Location
Not on view
Copyright
© 1971 John Baldessari. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, NY
Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by the Ford Motor Company
Mediums
Mediums Description
single-channel video, black and white, sound; 12:45 minutes
Classifications
Subjects
  • Figure male
  • Recreation — sport and play — track & field
Object Number
2007.33.8
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2007.33.8

Artwork Description

In this single-channel video, John Baldessari examines the chronological relationship between still images and motion pictures. The artist constructs a purposefully crude moving image from still pictures of himself walking toward the camera, then running past it. By creating a video with still images, Baldessari urges viewers to question notions of sequence and cinematic time, and how we depict the past, present, and future.

Works by this artist (4 items)

Welmon Sharlhorne, Untitled (Building with Recessed Entrance and Black Foreground), ca. 1992, ink on manila envelope, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1997.124.135
Untitled (Building with Recessed Entrance and Black…
Artist
Dateca. 1992
ink on manila envelope
Not on view
Welmon Sharlhorne, Untitled (Beaked Creature), ca. 1994, ink on manila envelope, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1997.124.136
Untitled (Beaked Creature)
Artist
Dateca. 1994
ink on manila envelope
Not on view
Welmon Sharlhorne, Untitled (Building with Bricked Exterior), ca. 1992, ink on manila envelope, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1997.124.137
Untitled (Building with Bricked Exterior)
Artist
Dateca. 1992
ink on manila envelope
Not on view
Welmon Sharlhorne, Bus, ca. 1992, ink on manila envelope, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1997.124.134
Bus
Artist
Dateca. 1992
ink on manila envelope
Not on view

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Welmon Sharlhorne, Untitled (Building with Recessed Entrance and Black Foreground), ca. 1992, ink on manila envelope, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1997.124.135
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Artist
Dateca. 1992
ink on manila envelope
Not on view
Andrea Way, Bones, 1987, ink on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Tom and Judy Brody, 2009.38.3, © 1987, Andrea Way
Bones
Artist
Date1987
ink on paper
Not on view
Carl Piwinski, Martian Worlds, ca. 1992, ink on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1997.124.125
Martian Worlds
Artist
Dateca. 1992
ink on paper
Not on view
Christoph Voll, William H. Johnson, Heads of Two Children, ca. 1930-1938, pen and ink on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.388
Heads of Two Children
Artist
Dateca. 1930-1938
pen and ink on paper
Not on view