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Title
Talking
.
Creator
Guston, Philip (American painter, 1913-1980)
Date
1979
Cultural Context
American
North American
Style/Period
New Image
Contemporary
Postmodern
Theme
Paintings (visual works)
Oil paintings (visual works)
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Arms (animal or human components)
Wrists (animal or human components)
Hands (animal or human components)
Fingers (animal or human components)
Watches
Wrist watches
Timepieces
Smoke
Existentialism
Subject
Paintings
Oil paintings
Arms (Anatomy)
Hands
Fingers
Body parts
Clocks & watches
Cigarettes
Smoking
Smoke
Worry
Description
"As in
certain
paintings
by
Francis
Bacon
,
existential
givens
were
made
stubbornly
palpable
in
Guston's
pictures
.
Recurrent
images
such
as a
head
with a
single
wide-open
eye
,
wrist-watches
,
bare
light-bulbs
, or
cigarette
butts
spoke
of
bouts
of
intense
work
,
worry
, and
doubt.
"
(Caption
,
p.204)
; "By the
turn
of the
1980s
a
full-scale
revival
of
figuration
,
informed
by
lessons
learned
from
abstraction
, was
underway
. Not
only
was
it
promoted
in
large
exhibitions
, but its
return
coincided
with a
temporary
shift
in
art-world
domination
from
America
to
Europe
. The
defining
exhibitions
were
'A
New
Spirit
in
Painting'
at
London's
Royal
Academy
in
1981
and
'Zeitgeist'
in
Berlin
in
1982
. Their
European
curators
made
passionate
claims
for a
reaffirmation
of
humanist
concerns
,
sensing
that
Conceptualism's
ascetic
intellectualism
had
signaled
the
end
of a
historical
trajectory
. In the
catalogue
for the
London
show
one
of its
organizers
asserted
that
'the
subjective
view
, the
creative
imagination
, has
come
back
into its
own'
.
[…]
One
of the
early
'discoveries'
of this
revival
was
Philip
Guston
,
whose
work
had
already
provided
a
catalyst
for what
critics
in
late
1970s
New
York
dubbed
'New
Image'
painting
.
Guston
had
initially
been
linked
to
Abstract
Expressionism
,
shifting
dramatically
to
figuration
in the
mid-1960s
.
Deciding
that his
previous
output
had been
dishonestly
geared
to
specious
notions
of
'purity'
,
Guston
spent
the
1970s
setting
down
the
insistent
,
graspable
facts
of his
daily
moods
,
obsessions
, and
insecurities
. His
lexicon
of
crude
,
idiosyncratic
images
borrowed
their
stylizations
from
1940s
American
cartoonists
such
as
Al
Capp
or
Basil
Wolverton
(figures
who
also
influenced
the
1960s
'underground'
comic-book
artist
Robert
Crumb).
"
(Excerpt
,
pp.203-204)
Material
Oil on canvas
Oil paint (pigmented coating)
Paint
Canvas
Measurements
174 x 198 cm
Technique
Oil painting (technique)
Painting (image-making)
Work Type
Paintings
Oil paintings
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.204, fig.103)
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
827-18.jpg
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