Philip Guston

1913–1980

Philip Guston, ‘Monument’ 1976 — Monument 1976
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Biography

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-expressionism in painting, abandoning so-called "pure abstraction" in favor of more representational, simplified renderings of personal symbols and objects. His existential, lugubrious images after 1968 employed a limited palette.

Guston was a lecturer and teacher at a number of universities and so he is also regarded for his words and teachings, collected in the 2011 book Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art).

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Artworks

Philip Guston, ‘Monument’ 1976

Philip Guston Monument

1976

T05870

Philip Guston, ‘The Return’ 1956–8

Philip Guston The Return

1956–8

T00252

Philip Guston, ‘Cornered’ 1971

Philip Guston Cornered

1971

T04885

Philip Guston, ‘Black Sea’ 1977

Philip Guston Black Sea

1977

T03364

Philip Guston, ‘Group I’ 1968

Philip Guston Group I

1968

L02177

Philip Guston, ‘Sea Group’ 1980

Philip Guston Sea Group

1980

View by appointment P11416

Philip Guston, ‘Hat’ 1976

Philip Guston Hat

1976

T07132

Philip Guston, ‘Head I’ 1965

Philip Guston Head I

1965

T07131

Features

Paula Rego, ‘Nanny, Small Bears and Bogeyman’ 1982

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Neo-expressionism

Neo-expressionism acted as a major revival of painting in an expressionist manner in the 1980s and it occurred internationally

Basil Wolverton, Heap 1955 ink on paper

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Rudely transgressing the boundaries between the elevated and the profane

Jonathan Griffin

Etc. Essay: The grotesque

Howard Hodgkin, ‘Mr and Mrs Stephen Buckley’ 1974–6

Tate Etc

I've never painted an abstract picture in my life

Kenneth Baker and Ben Luke

Howard Hodgkin in conversation

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