Dreams
Ed Ruscha
An evolving visual and conceptual device Ruscha has used in his work is the pairing of text imagery with backgrounds he referred to, in a 1998 Getty Center lecture, as "suggestors". Whether definite images or simply atmospheric environments for his words, these backgrounds are evocative in themselves and can create a dynamic within the work. A dynamic of tension can be achieved if the suggestor condradicts the text with which the visual space is shared, or a dynamic of harmony is made, as in the present work Dreams. In one recurring motif, Ruscha presented suggestors that appeared as though light from an unseen casement window had thrown gridded patterns across a surface. In Dreams, he goes a step further and presents the window itself, along with the suggestion that what lies beyond is such stuff as dreams are made on.
Dreams
Ed Ruscha
- Artist
- Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
- Title
- Dreams
- Medium
- Mixed Media
- Date
- 1985
- Size
- 22 7/8 x 28 7/8 in : 58.0 x 73.4 cm
- Inscriptions
- Signed and dated lower right
- Provenance
- Private collection, Los Angeles
- Registration
- Registered by the Edward Ruscha studio under no. D1985.82
- Reference
- C16-15
- Status
- Sold
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