“Words have temperatures to me,” Ruscha noted in 1973. “When they reach a certain point and become hot words, then they appeal to me. ‘Synthetic’ is a very hot word. Sometimes I have a dream that if a word gets too hot and too appealing, it will boil apart, and I won’t be able to read or think of it. Usually I catch them before they get too hot.”
Split fountain is a silk-screening technique in which several colors are used in a single run to create a gradation of blended colors.
Details
- Artist Name: Ed Ruscha (American, 1937-)
- Title: Adios
- Date: 1969
- Medium: Lithograph on calendered Rives BFK paper; torn and deckle edges, bleed image
- Dimensions: sheet: 9-3/8 x 22-1/8 in. (23.8 x 56.2 cm)
- Publisher: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc.
- Printer: Jean Milant
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Anonymous Gift
- Accession Number: P.1972.08.022
- Copyright: © 2012 Edward Ruscha
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