Six Colorful Tales: From the Emotional Spectrum ( Women) (1977) dir. John Baldessari

In Six Colorful Inside Jobs he draws a parallel between a double process of life and creation. The video shows a room being painted in six different colors, each color of the spectrum corresponding to a day of the week. This work, which started as a performance, installation, integrates the artist as a comic figure faced with contemporary historyÑthat of American paintingÑand shifts his function toward that of a house painter. Through this form of irony, Baldessari shows to what extent instruments and materials help him define the subtle limits between art and work, art and life.