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  1. Biography and significance of Philip Guston on The Art Story. Released in 1981, Philip Guston: A Life Lived is an art documentary film & interview exploring his work from 1930s up until his 1980 retrospective.

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  2. Jun 16, 2023 · Philip Guston: The Not For Sale Collection. 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. June 16, 2023. 8 min. watch.

  3. Philip Guston was in a tangle his whole life between the two motions had by every person, and so grandly comprehended by Eli Siegel: the constant desire to respect the world—the intense, imaginative, relation of oneself and the world which is the source of all art—and that motion away from the world, a contempt for things in order to give ...

    • He constantly changed his painting style. As an artist, Philip Guston didn't typically stick to a single painting style over his career. He constantly pushed himself to evolve in new and different directions.
    • He started his career painting murals. Growing up, Philip Guston loved drawing and comic books. He taught himself to sketch and published his first cartoon when he was just 13.
    • His art was influenced by politics and real-life events. Guston’s Jewish parents fled present-day Ukraine for Los Angeles when he was nine. From a young age, he was interested in communism and leftist politics.
    • He worked with poets. Guston lived to paint, but also loved poetry, saying ‘they [the poets] see without the jargon of art’. He created 'poem-pictures,' vibrant illustrations of everyday items to accompany poems, for his wife, poet Musa McKim and others.
  4. Guston is young, talented and he's starting to connect with other artists about how they could respond to the world in turmoil and how to use art in a political way. He's looking at the perpetuators of racist violence and particularly the Ku Klux Klan and these hooded figures.

  5. Philip Guston: A Life Lived: Directed by Michael Blackwood. With Clark Coolidge, Musa Guston, Philip Guston, Henry Hopkins. Philip Guston is a powerful staple of the abstract expressionist movement, though he would prefer it be referred to as the New York School.

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  7. Jul 21, 2020 · 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.

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