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): Kanadisch-amerikanischer Künstler, der von abstrakter Kunst zur eindringlichen figurativen Darstellung gesellschaftlicher Missstände führte. Ein Schlüsselname der New York School.
Details zum Kunstwerk
- Titel: Head and Bottle
- Künstler: Philip Guston
- Jahr: 1975
- Format: Square
- Urheberrechtlicher Status: Urheberrechtlich geschützt
- Bewegung: Neo Expressionism
- Farbintensität: Balanced
- Empfundene Helligkeit: brilliant