New York MOMoO Museum of Modern Art

New York MoMA Exhibition: The Soul of Los Angeles No Monet's Seine, but I have Route 66 in the West of the United States The Museum of Modern Art in New York is exhibiting the solo exhibition of American painter Ed Ruscha, Now Then "Now and Then", which is a comprehensive retrospective of the artist's career. Ruscha was born in the western United States and lives and works in Los Angeles. He is now 85 years old. I still remember his exhibition Ed Ruscha and the Great American West that I saw in San Francisco in 2016. A few years later, I was able to see his exhibition in New York, the capital of art, which shows that he has received wider recognition. Ruscha's works are diverse in style and distinctive in personality. What touched me most was his depiction of Los Angeles architecture. The plain, undecorated low-rise buildings in Los Angeles become poetic under his brush, and ordinary objects are endowed with soul. I really like his gas stations, with their pop style, simple lines and bright colors. The purely functional gas station in reality, which has nothing to do with beauty, can be so clean and beautiful. This reminds me of another oil painting that I really like at MoMa, Edward Hopper's Gas (coincidentally, the two painters have the same name). I bought two postcards in the museum gift shop. They are both gas stations, but because of the different styles of the two painters, they bring completely different feelings