About this artwork
From his earlies experinces as a sign painter, Ed Ruscha delveoped an abiding interest in the visual and conceptual tensions between text and image. In the late 1980s, he produced a succession of airbrush paintings featureing nocturnal, silhouetted images dereived from photographs. F House can be seen as an exploration of the relationship between photography and painting; the block-style letter F that floats on the house may even allude to the f-stop on a camera. the superimposition of the red motif over the house could also imply surveillance by means of a telescopic lens, or perhaps even the stop of a gun. Suggesting intrustive examination and potentila harm, the image evokes scenes from Hollywood suspense thrillers and infuses a vision of middle-class prospertity unsettling, prehaps malevolent, overtones.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Ed Ruscha
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Title
- F House
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1987
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Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
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Dimensions
- 116.8 × 203.2 cm (46 × 80 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Lannan Foundation
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Reference Number
- 1997.153
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Copyright
- © 1987 Ed Ruscha.
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