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Philip Guston

The American artist Philip Guston (1913—1980) was driven, sustained, and consumed by art. His style ranged from the social realism of his WPA murals through his abstract expressionist canvasses of the 1950s and 1960s—when he counted Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, and Kline among his friends—to his cartoon-like paintings of Klansmen, disembodied heads, and tangled piles of everyday objects.

“A pile of junk between two telephone poles—the urge is to kick it, disperse it. I love only strangeness.”

Critics and public alike savaged Philip Guston for his return to figurative art—but today his late work is recognized for the singular power of his personal, darkly hilarious vision.

“Please excuse my immodest comparison—but like Isaac Babel—I want to paint of things long forgotten.”

 

Philip Guston: Character

Philip Guston: Art

08.04.2009 Articles

Philip Guston's words about his paintings

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Philip Guston

Philip Guston: Letter to Bill Berkson

27.03.2009 Readings

I haven't really understood what I am doing — Does that come later?

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Philip Guston

Philip Guston: What's wrong with feeling bad?

25.03.2009 Readings

I did not hardly sleep at nights, but dreamed all the time about colors and forms

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Philip Guston

Philip Guston Talking

03.03.2009 Articles

At the University of Minnesota in March 1978 edited by Renée McKee

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Philip Guston_Article by Philip Roth

Philip Guston by Philip Roth

11.12.2008 Articles

In 1967, sick of life in the New York art world, Philip Guston left

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Edge of Town

Philip Guston: Edge Of Town

11.12.2008 Articles

Philip Guston’s Edge of Town illustrates our theme.

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