For Interpretation

Since seeing Edward Ruscha's work in the High Museum, I decided to do a little research. I came upon a quote by Ruscha in which he said, "Art has to be something that makes you scratch your head." As a class, we recently read Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag in which she makes a solid argument that as viewers, we tend to over interpret content instead of seeing art as it is. For artists like Ruscha, he welcomes interpretation which I will gladly give him.

Edward Ruscha is well known for his images of words and phrases which may be ironic, satiric, or just simply random. I found this article about him and it's interesting that the journalist tries to interpret the images below but Ruscha only laughs and leaves the meaning up to whoever is seeing the art.