Ed Ruscha

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Well?

― Tom, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry Sarah!

He's a modern artist, Thomso and I went to see an exhibition of his in Oxford last week. Not so much cop we thought but let's see what ILE make of him.

― Tom, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You mean, like the bassist out of Medicine? Yeah, I really liked him. He did the best little dance when he played, we used to call it the Medicine Sway, and we had to teach it to Justin and all the other Medicine bass players after him.

Oh, you mean his dad, the artist? Yes, he's quite good, too.

― Ugly Wife, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I liked his elephant picture that I saw in the Independent last week.

― Andrew L, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I liked his snide "Artists Who Makes Pieces" piece. Much of the stuff that I've seen seemed to be conceptual art that took the snidely piss out of other conceptual artists. But very effectively, while still managing to be aesthetically pleasing. I think it worked.

― Ugly Wife, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really like Ed Ruscha, though if I were to express a preference I think his early seventies stuff is best. But we have a copy of his Wee Wee on our bathroom wall and Exit by the door to the flat plus a rotating selection of his more cryptic bon mots by the stairs. Its not exactly ropcket science (words as art) but I like the sentiment and the banality of many of said statements.

I gave you a copy of Eat, Then Dance last year I believe Tom. Not sure what his new stuff is like. The Phaidon press "They Called Her Styrene" is a good introduction and is supposed to read like a very disjointed art novel. Ruscha connects with me in a way most art doesn't (possibly because it isn't very clever).

― Pete, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I prefer Ed Rush & Optical - The Creeps is a top 10 album of the year contender - the CD version was released in 2001. Stunning futuristic production.

― DJ Martian, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Blimey well it is I who is not clever since I did not make the connection between Wash, Then Dance (up on my s0-called mantelpiece) and the blokey we went to see the pictures by.

Maybe it was the gallery setting that put me off - they do work well when treated as kind of quirky ornaments rather than Art Objects. The best things in the exhibition were his tiny hand-bound books - "Several Swimming Pools" etc.

― Tom, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My FAvorite Artsit, or at leas in the top twenty. Part of the la pop artists i think are not pop (cf Richard Prince). Did a couple of fabolus photo books including 77 gas stations and every building on the sun set strip. Really a concepluist. Those photos of baseball stadiums from the air that look like flowers or holy temples. The new paintings that feature just one word of evoctoive text and havily shaded (sometimes with gunpowder) or brightly colored backgrounds. He also did these mountains with text above as well or those streets which are the name of the strret, intersecting with the name of another street
He seems to record the forgotten aesthics of the world. The things and places that are in the back of our minds, banal with familarty. He makes them realvent and neuatifula and poetic and dangerous and sexy again .

― anthony, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He's good. But my fave LA artist is probably Mike Kelley.

Ed Ruscha, Jr. is a well-known fixture on the LA art scene, goes out with this Swiss trusta Francesca who is also an artist, but I'm not sure how good she is.

― suzy, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love l.a art . But i like the conceptual and theortical ones best ( Theiebaud(sp),Prince etc) I try to like Mike Kelly but fail. BTW i quated you on my blog yesterday suzy.

― anthony, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmph. I'll quat you, EWING.

― Sarah, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anthony, blog is where?

― suzy, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, this chap sounds alright. What does "neuatifula" mean though? Heh. I am remembering some art I went to see which was tiny alphabet shaped bits of pasta in a jar at the Anthony D'Offay (am I making this up) gallery. I thought it was good, then again I was hungry and probably just wanted to eat it. Mmmm, it satiates hunger = it is art! Those sunflowers don't even LOOK tasty, get out Van Goff/Go. David Hockney is a mad old fish isn't he? I liked his camera obscura programme but hrmph. It made art seem rather soulless and mechanical.

― Sarah, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

neuatifula = beautiful

anthony's cheeky claim that you can "always google" (after he was posted eg Ipcsaso: wlel?) still has me chuckling.

― mark s, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

www.pinkmoose.blogpsot.com

― anthony, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was curious about the provenance of 'Eat Then Dance' myself actually, Tom, but I didn't like to remove the postcard from its frame to determine whether or not it was a Ruscha. I thought we got a fairly limp selection at that particular show, and although I thought there was potential in the photo booklets, and that the early playing with the techniques of commercial art and design vs. 'real' art fitted quite well with the early Pop sensibility (Rosenquist et. al.), I wasn't convinved by how the bloke's career seemed to have panned out. Liked the fact that he gave up painting at all for ages. Surely all painters should do this at some point?

― alext, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Seeing Ruscha's retrospective at the MCA bored me a bit. Personally I think he's the most ovverrated of the LA scene. I did get to see one of his early seventies films though, and it was surprisingly good in a two-lane blacktop kind of way.

― turner, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OOOH I saw me on the blog, merci buttercups.

BTW it's TRACEY not Tracy Emin.

― suzy, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine years pass...

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OH!

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