Ed Ruscha’s Smash is an early example of one of the artist’s revolutionary Text paintings, a body of work which established him as one of the most innovative and influential painters of his generation.

Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (/ r uː ˈ ʃ eɪ /, roo-SHAY; born December 16, 1937) is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting , printmaking , drawing , photography , and film .

Sep 20, 2023 · OOF. HONK. SMASH. MoMA’s giant Ed Ruscha retrospective (the first in New York in many decades) announces itself with a rat-tat-tat of punchy monosyllables.

Edward Ruscha has 254 works online. There are 18,039 drawings online. We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history. In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning to identify artworks in installation photos.

From San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) , Ed Ruscha, Smash (1963), Oil on canvas, 71 3/4 × 67 in

Nov 8, 2024 · After returning to America, his paintings continued to reproduce individual words such as Boss (1961), Smash (1963) (which sold for $30,405,000 at Christie’s New York in November 2014), Honk (1962), Oof (1963) and Automatic (1966).

Sep 24, 2020 · For fifty years he’s made words dramatic, romantic, powerful and funny. Moms have always told their kids that words can be powerful. Ed’s paintings prove it.His initial experiment featured single words against a flatly lit background. SMASH, ELECTRIC, and NOISE are painted in bold, aggressive letters.

Nov 14, 2019 · A record-smashing Ed Ruscha painting gave a major boost to Christie’s evening sale of post-war and contemporary art in New York on Wednesday. The evening’s star lot, Hurting the Word Radio #2 (1964), did not disappoint, providing a $52.4-million jolt to a sale that brought in a total of $325.2 million.

Ed Ruscha (1937-) In the latest feature of the ’Paintings on the Wall’ series we discover the work of Edward Ruscha or as his business cards would say: "ED-WERD REW-SHAY". Journalist Elisa Bray profiles the painter below, and check out Paul’s thoughts on Edward Ruscha in his PS from PM at the end... TURNING THE ORDINARY INTO THE EXTRAORDINARY

Once, when asked about the abundance of text in his work, Ed Ruscha explained, “I just happened to paint words like someone else paints flowers.” 1 Indeed, language remains the artist’s most consistent subject, one whose form and meaning he has continuously explored over more than six decades. In 1961, one year after completing his studies at the Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts) in ...