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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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Sep 19, 2016 · Duration: 59 minutes. Subtitles: English, Chinese (Traditional) Availability: Worldwide. Narrated by the artist. Interviews by Roberta Smith, Jan Butterfield, Henry Hopkins, Charles Shere, Michael Blackwood. Late in life, the artist looks back over a career that originated in social realism during the '30s, moved to the center of Abstract ...
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Philip Guston: A Life Lived. Late in life, Guston 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 he is seen painting.
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.
8. He made art in response to the Vietnam War and Holocaust. From the beginning of his career, Guston made art that spoke to what was happening in the world around him. He created one of his earlier paintings, Bombardment, in response to the April 1937 Fascist bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica.
May 12, 2020 · The youngest of seven children, Guston was born Phillip Goldstein, in Montreal, in 1913, the year The Rite of Spring premiered in Paris, and he died of a heart attack in 1980, the year after Jean-François Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition was published. His life traced that of modern art itself, and he played almost every role available: satirical cartoonist, New Deal muralist, core member ...
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Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplished abstraction," [ 1 ] and is now regarded as one of the "most important, powerful, and influential American painters of the last 100 years."
