%C2%A9 The Estate of Philip Guston Courtesy the Estate and Hauser %26 Wirth
Prospects, 1977
Philip Gustonexpand_more
Oil on canvasexpand_more
Bequest of Musa Gustonexpand_more 92.149
Not on Viewexpand_more
Guston was a renowned painter of abstract art when he turned to figurative painting in the mid-1960s. "There is something ridiculous and miserly in the myth we inherit from abstract art,” he said. “That painting is autonomous, pure and for itself, therefore we habitually analyze its ingredients and define its limits. But painting is ‘impure.’ It is the adjustment of ‘impurities’ which forces its continuity. We are image-makers and image-ridden.” This statement and sentiment became a professional motto. Using a lexicon of light bulbs, shoes, cigarettes, clocks, and other consumer goods, Guston’s work becomes a contemporary poem ridden with images.
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- American (born Canada), 1913 - 1980
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- Painter
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- 92.149
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