Philip Guston
Philip Guston was a Canadian and 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". He frequently depicted racism, antisemitism, fascism and American identity, as well as—especially in his later most cartoonish and mocking work—the banality of evil.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Montreal
- Educated at
- Manual Arts High SchoolOtis College of Art and Design
- Awards
- 🏆 Rome Prize🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum."
"Dore Ashton, integral text of: A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990"
"There is something ridiculous and miserly in the myth we inherit from abstract art: That painting is autonomous, pure and for itself, and therefore we habitually analyze its ingredients and define its…"
"..there comes a point when something catches on the canvas, something grips on the canvas. I don’t know what it is, you can put your paint on the surface? Most of the time it looks like paint, and who…"
"My wife on her own, did several other murals for the Section of Fine Arts. Then in 1940 and 1941 we moved out of New York City and came to Woodstock where we did the Laconia murals and several murals …"
"Oral history interview with Philip Guston, 1965 January 29, conducted by Joseph S. Trovato; Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution"
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Timeline
1913
Born
Birth1980
Died
Death
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