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1981 / 58 min. / color. Directed by Michael Blackwood. Philip Guston is a powerful staple of the abstract expressionist movement, though he would prefer it be referred to as the New York School. Along with composers, choreographers and his fellow visual artists, Guston found his place in the avant garde. Often times finding modern art almost ...
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1981 / 58 min. / color. Directed by Michael Blackwood....
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In Philip Guston’s life there was always a battle, an unresolved battle. He was in a fight between being affected by other things and withdrawing into himself. When he resigned from the Works Project Administration in the late l930s, having been, like many artists, engaged in doing paintings for public buildings, he said he wanted to “do ...
The film is absolutely wonderful. Guston words are potent with wisdom. I learned so much more about him and I'll probably be watching this many more times to come. I also love the quote you mentioned. It's one I think about often!
Oct 5, 2023 · The tremendous Philip Guston retrospective just arrived at Tate Modern is perfect pitch: gripping in painterly expression and energy, awash with colour and drama, revelatory at every turn ...
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Jun 16, 2023 · Musa Guston Mayer takes us into the studio of her father, the artist Philip Guston, reflecting on her relationship with him and the future of his legacy. Philip Guston (American, born Canada, 1913–80). The Line, ca.1978. Oil on canvas, 71 × 73 1/4 in. (180.3 × 186.1 cm). Promised Gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Late in life, the artist looks back over a career that originated in social realism during the '30s, moved to the center of Abstract Expressionism, and culminated in a return to figuration. Filmed at his retrospective in San Francisco in 1980 and at his Woodstock studio, where Guston is seen painting, the artist speaks candidly about his philosophy of painting and the psychological motivation ...
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Although he made his name in the 1950s and ‘60s as an Abstract Expressionist, Philip Guston is now best remembered for the dark humor conveyed in the cartoon-like figurative paintings and drawings that he prolifically produced during the last twelve years of his life, which ended in 1980.
