'Ed Ruscha / Now Then,' the largest exhibition ever of iconic and cryptic works by one of the most celebrated American artists of the postwar era, is now on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
'If I paint a mountaintop, it's not really a mountaintop; it's an idea of a mountaintop,' said artist Ed Ruscha.Some artists are so weird and wonderful, you just can't stop thinking about them. Maybe that's why 'CBS Sunday Morning' profiled Ruscha in 1983: …and again in 2011…... and now, a third time.
He repeated the project again, and again -- 30 times, by his count. There was a period in the seventies when Ruscha made his paintings with anything but paint. He tried gunpowder, tobacco juice, egg yolk, axle grease, caviar, even his own blood. 'I did all that when I was bored with paint,' he said. 'I just thought, 'I'm gonna take a breather here and use some other materials.''Including, at one point, chocolate -- an entire room made of chocolate and paper.
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