Ruscha’s first “liquid word” images were paintings, beginning with Annie, Poured from Maple Syrup from 1966. While at Tamarind, he returned to the theme of liquid words. The following is an excerpt from a 1992 conversation between the artist and the late Walter Hopps, who was director of the Pasadena Art Museum from 1963 to 1967.
WH: When did the liquid words start, where there’s a sort of deep space [the illusion of depth]?
ER: That was about 1966 I guess, and I had just seen the end of the road with a certain kind of painting I was doing. I don’t know why it happened, but close-up views of liquids somehow began to interest me. And then I started making little setups on tables, and painting them, using syrup, and studying what happens when you pour syrup out, or turpentine, or water…I sometimes refer to it as my “romance with liquids” period.
Details
- Artist Name: Ed Ruscha (American, 1937-)
- Title: Mint
- Date: 1969
- Medium: Lithograph on J. Green paper; torn and deckle edges
- Dimensions: sheet: 17 1/8 x 24 1/8 in. (43.5 x 61.3 cm); Image: 9 x 21 1/2 in. (22.9 x 54.6 cm.)
- Publisher: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc.
- Printer: Manuel Fuentes
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Anonymous Gift
- Accession Number: P.1972.08.015
- Copyright: © 2012 Edward Ruscha
Object Information
Ooo: Early Prints by Ed Ruscha
- Norton Simon Museum, 2006-09-22 to 2007-01-22
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