No, I’m not getting married. I just thought that while I linked to this painting in my last links post, it deserved being shared here visually. It being a painting and all. This is Ed Ruscha’s “Man, Wife.” I saw it in person recently in the Magritte and Contemporary Art exhibit at the LACMA.
The LACMA is amazing. It’s one of the best curated museums I’ve been to and the Magritte exhibit does not disappoint. The exhibit does a great job of providing historical and cultural context for Magritte’s work and even more effectively portrays his immense influence on contemporary art and his sense of humor about the whole thing. (The guards wear bowler hats.) While I’m not typically fond of what usually falls into the descriptive bucket of surrealism, I am now a huge fan of Magritte.
The LACMA website has a brief conversation posted with Ruscha about Magritte.
The exhibit is a bit pricey ($23) so I think you’re better off just purchasing a membership. I did.
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“1943 Ruscha enters the first grade at a Catholic school. Dorothy Ruscha(mother) cannot tolerate the repressive discipline of her children by the parochial school nuns and after a year has them transferred to Hawthorne Elementary School. She encourages her son’s artistic inclinations.” http://www.edruschacatalogue.com/site/chronology.cfm
So, it’s obvious that no church is need to initiate an art as mostly asserted.