Ruscha’s Z’s
Ed Ruscha is known for experimenting with painting and drawing words and phrases, often oddly comic and satirical sayings. When asked where he got his inspiration for his paintings, Ruscha responded, “Well, they just occur to me; sometimes people say them and I write down and then I paint them. Sometimes I use a dictionary.” From his online Catalogue Raisonné , Z’s found in his, “A… …Z”, “Two Letters From The Alphabet” and “A-Z”:
