Head and Bottle
Head and Bottle exemplifies Guston's move away from painting the hooded Klansmen in the late 1960s. He invented this lima-bean shaped Cyclops head, with no body and one giant eye, to represent the all-seeing artist. In this work, the eye scrutinizes a green bottle, studying it as if about to pick up the nearby paintbrush to render it in red paint. The year after he painted this, Guston was hospitalized with exhaustion.
Philip Guston (1913 – 1980)
Philip Guston (1913-1980) var en canadisk-amerikansk kunstner, kendt for sin udvikling fra abstrakt ekspressionisme til rå figurativ kunst, der udforsker racisme og identitet. En nøglefigur i New York School.
Om dette kunstværk
- Titel: Head and Bottle
- Kunstner: Philip Guston
- År: 1975
- Format: Square
- Ophavsretlig status: Ophavsretligt beskyttet
- Bevægelse: Neo Expressionism
- Farveintensitet: Balanced
- Oplevet lysstyrke: brilliant