Bouncing Marbles, Bouncing Apple, Bouncing Olive
Edward Ruscha
Oil on canvas
"In Bouncing Marbles, Bouncing Apple, Bouncing Olive, Edward Ruscha explores an obscure language of visual relationships. He divorces the objects depicted from their everyday contexts by placing them within an infinite, surreal space. The relationships that exist among the marbles, apples and olive are equally interpretations. The marbles might refer to childhood, the olive to hors d'oeuvres and martinis and the apple to the Fall of Adam and Eve. Such a reading makes this a meditation on the loss of innocence. Alternatively, Ruscha may have constructed a playful dialog among round forms or a treatise on Newton's law."
Very interesting, unique, and fun to look at. I’d like to see the original.
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It always reminds me of a pool table. 🙂
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Haha! 🙂
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This piece makes me wonderful what art really is. Not for me to say.
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I suppose like Fellini said:
“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
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