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PRETTY EYES, ELECTRIC BILLS
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© Ed Ruscha

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PRETTY EYES, ELECTRIC BILLS 1976
  • Artist Rooms
During the mid 1970s Ruscha made a series of drawings in pastel using pithy phrases against fields of colour. The sentences and phrases evoke American vernacular and slang, draw attention to a particular experience or recall the excesses of Hollywood culture. Ruscha has noted that this work is ”my way of separating two subjects that are on the far end of the world from each other”, and expresses his enjoyment of finding conflict between things.

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Pastel

A drawing material made from ground pigment bound with enough gum or resin to hold it together in a stick, often smudged on paper to produce soft, atmospheric effects.

Pastel

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  • Acc. No. AR00054
  • Medium Pastel and graphite on paper
  • Size 57.40 x 72.10 cm
  • Credit ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Acquired jointly through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008

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