Edward Ruscha was an influential artist in the pop art movement of the mid-20th century, who brought to the world a very simple but loud painting. It simply says "OOF" in big, yellow block letters with a blue background. Art historians might feed you some bullshit, saying that it spoke to the common vernacular of the time, or that it represented the post-war irony of minimal anguish, or that it just made real life feel like a comic book, the painting acting like a floating speech bubble above any gallery passerby.Swwwwwing and a miss… #PLonNBC https://t.co/FqpEm1FLPF
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