Ed Ruscha Text and Image Investigation

Text and Image Investigation

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About the artist

Ed Ruscha is a pop culture artist whose art revolves around the use of text on an often solid or subtlety textured background. Ruscha's use of text in his art is typically satirical in nature. He draws inspiration from the vast and almost empty landscape of the American West.

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Looking Deeper

Ed Ruscha's art is very simplistic to look at, with the complexity of his pieces coming from the text that he writes on them, the font of the text, and the positioning of the text on the background. 

The backgrounds on his pieces are simplistic in nature, with one of the more complex backgrounds being that of snow topped mountains, however this is rarely found in his current work.

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Answers to questions

1. What have you learned about text and image?
1. I have learned that text and image can be used to make a rather interesting statement on an other wards simple piece of art.
2. How do contemporary artists use the concept of text and image in their works?
1. Artists are able to use text and image to add more meaning and context to an otherwise rather simplistic work.
3. How may you be able to use text and image in your own art?
1. I would like to explore how a piece of 3D art (static or animated) could use this concept to add depth to it... would it have the same effect as Ed Ruscha's 2D art.
4. Is there something that you found in your investigation that specifically interested or inspired you?
1. I found it interesting how Ed Ruscha used text and image to make the viewer interpret the meaning or the context of the art (take the "Radio" one above for example).