1998, Ed Ruscha, Santa Monica, Melrose, Beverly, La Brea, Fairfax -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From the museum label: Ruscha has frequently employed an aerial view to present a different perspective of Los Angeles. Here, he highlights the formal geometric beauty of the city's grid map with the inclusion of some of its iconic street names. As Ruscha observed, "I've always been intrigued by oblique perspectives, like aerial views. There's something about the tabletop... taking a viewer up in the air, so you can look down from an angle." His elaborate plotting, mapping, identifying, and labeling from a bird's-eye perspective allow certain things to diminish as others come into the foreground.
1998, Ed Ruscha, Santa Monica, Melrose, Beverly, La Brea, Fairfax -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From the museum label: Ruscha has frequently employed an aerial view to present a different perspective of Los Angeles. Here, he highlights the formal geometric beauty of the city's grid map with the inclusion of some of its iconic street names. As Ruscha observed, "I've always been intrigued by oblique perspectives, like aerial views. There's something about the tabletop... taking a viewer up in the air, so you can look down from an angle." His elaborate plotting, mapping, identifying, and labeling from a bird's-eye perspective allow certain things to diminish as others come into the foreground.