Philip Guston - Allegory (1975) #philipguston #guston | Contemporary Art

🧨 Now open at Tate: ‘Philip Guston,’ the first major retrospective on the artist in the UK in nearly 20 years. What the press are saying 🗞️ ★★★★★ London Evening Standard: ‘Guston’s ability to capture the humdrum stuff around him that he called crapola — lightbulbs, cigarettes, canvases, tincans — while reflecting on the great struggle that is existence, is extraordinarily moving,’ ✏️ Ben Luke ★★★★★ The Telegraph: ‘Just looking at Guston’s high-cholesterol content, painted in a scrumptious, goo

Step inside the mind of Philip Guston. 🔍 Guston’s art is not for the faint of heart. But even in its darkest moments, his work is a sobering reminder of the many chapters of American history that are often overlooked. See for yourself.👇 Join us on a two-minute tour of “Philip Guston Now,” on view in our East Building through August 27. | National Gallery of Art

Philip Guston in his Woodstock studio, 1980. An excerpt from the documentary ’Philip Guston: A Life Lived’ . Late in life, Guston looks back over a career that originated in social realism during the 1930s, moved to the center of Abstract Expressionism, and culminated in a return to figuration. Filmed at his retrospective in San Francisco in 1980 and at his Woodstock studio where he is seen painting. The artist speaks candidly about his philosophy of painting and the psychological motivation for

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