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Philip Guston (pronounced like "rust"), born Phillip Goldstein (June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980), was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from abstract expressionism to neo ...
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- The Studio
The Studio marks the beginning of Philip Guston's move away...
- Zone
Zone, a painting that reflects the focused concentration of...
- City Limits
In City Limits, Guston's hooded characters squeeze into a...
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In a career of constant struggle and evolution, Philip Guston emerged first in the 1930s as a social realist painter of murals in the 1930s. Much later he also evolved a unique and highly influential style of cartoon realism. But he made his name as an Abstract Expressionist. He avoided the muscular gestures of painters such as Pollock and Kline, a...
Guston's early career followed a pattern similar to that of many of his peers in Abstract Expressionism. He became interested in mural painting, and created fantastic scenes populated often by monu...Guston was drawn towards Abstract Expressionism when he settled in New York in the late 1940s. There he evolved an abstract art characterized by warm clouds of red hatch-marks floating over formles...The upheavals of 1960s made Guston increasingly uncomfortable with abstract painting, and his work eventually developed into the highly original cartoon-styled realism for which he is now best know...Childhood
Philip Guston was born Philip Goldstein, in Montreal, Canada, in 1913. He was the youngest of seven children born to a Jewish couple who had come to America after fleeing the pogroms in Russia. America seemed to offer shelter from persecution, yet the family found life difficult in their new country. Guston's father had been a saloon keeper, but he struggled to find work; in 1919 the family moved to Los Angeles with hopes of better fortunes, but they only encountered more hardship and also me...
Early Training
In 1927, Guston attended Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, where he met Jackson Pollock, and studied Cubism alongside the mystical philosophies of Krishnamurti and Ouspensky. After he and Pollock were expelled for distributing a leaflet mocking the English department, Guston was awarded a scholarship in 1930 to study at Otis Art Institute; in 1931 he had his first solo exhibition. Between his curtailed academic studies, and relocating to New York, he took odd jobs and traveled through M...
Mature Period
During the winter of 1935 Pollock urged Guston to move to New York permanently, and introduced his friend to many of the New York School painters. Guston would continue to paint murals until 1942, but in the early 1940s he began a return to easel painting and evolved a more personal style influenced by elements of abstraction, realism, and references to myth. Over time the surfaces of his canvases became increasingly textured and he began developing his signature color palette, in which tones...
- American
- June 27, 1913
- Montreal, Canada
- June 7, 1980
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The subsequent court ruling found no fault on the part of the L.A. police, even though irreversible damage was sustained to many works of art. In 1934, Philip Goldstein (as Guston was then known) and Kadish joined their friend the poet Jules Langsner on a trip to Mexico, where they were commissioned to paint a 1,000-square-foot (93 m 2) mural ...
- Los Angeles Manual Arts High School, Otis Art Institute
- American
- Painter, graphic artist, muralist, printmaker
He died on June 7, 1980 in Woodstock, NY. Today, the artist's works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others. Philip Guston was an iconic American painter whose works transitioned from Abstract Expressionism into an idiosyncratic lexicon ...
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Jul 22, 2020 · Genevieve Hanson/© The Estate of Philip Guston/Courtesy Hauser & Wirth. Guston was a largely self-taught artist. Born in Montreal in 1913, Guston was born the youngest of seven children to ...
Guston associated with several activist leftist groups through the 1930s. He painted abstract works from the late 1940s until around 1970, when he returned to a cartoonish kind of representational painting. He died of a heart attack just before his sixty-seventh birthday. (Storr, Philip Guston, 1986)
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," and is now regarded as one of the "most important, powerful, and influential American painters of the last 100 years."
