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...prismatic bloom of Larry Bell's immaculate glass boxes, and in Robert Irwin's pale disks floating into immateriality above their own cast shadows. The "look" is always playing games with media (where but in L.A. would an artist do drawings in caviar and gunpowder, as Ed Ruscha did?) and it stops just this side of fetishism and overrefinement...
...Edward Ruscha, 27, limns with the same T-square edge precision that is the trademark of hard-edged pop. But to him, "Andy Warhol's soup cans are too syrupy sweet." Ruscha prefers to paint what he calls "facts," words, corporate symbols or even filling stations, which he sees as machine monuments in the Western scenery, way stations in the wilderness. His compositions evoke a soaring into space just like a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the desert. The exaggerated imagery is commonplace, but the sense of dynamic movement is purely West Coast...
...EDWARD RUSCHA, 25, paints what he calls "commercial landscapes. " Sometimes they consist of nothing more than enlarged scraps of lettering from comic strips. "I'm very amused by the subject matter," says Ruscha. "Just like Rembrandt- he probably...