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View all 73 artworks. Philip Guston lived in the XX cent., a remarkable figure of American Abstract Expressionism and Neo-Expressionism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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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...
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- June 27, 1913
- Montreal, Canada
- June 7, 1980
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Aug 27, 2023 · Past Exhibition. March 2 – August 27, 2023. East Building, Concourse. Philip Guston Now charts the 50-year career of one of America’s most influential modern artists through more than 150 paintings and drawings.
The art of Philip Guston has been widely shown in museums and galleries. To date, it has been featured in over 130 solo exhibitions all over the world. With the work of other artists, his paintings and drawings have been included in over 1,800 group shows.
8 min read. Why do his paintings remain so urgent and relevant today? Philip Guston is among the most influential artists in modern art. Our exhibition, Philip Guston Now, is open March 2 to August 27, and we’ve gathered key facts about the artist to help you understand his life and work.
Overview. Inscriptions and Markings. Provenance. Exhibition History. References. Title: Painting. Artist: Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York) Date: 1952. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 48 × 51 in. (121.9 × 129.5 cm) Classification: Paintings.
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