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): artista canadese-americano che ha rivoluzionato l'arte, passando dall'astrattismo a figure potenti e satire sociali. Un pilastro della New York School.
Informazioni sull'opera
- Titolo: Head and Bottle
- Artista: Philip Guston
- Anno: 1975
- Formato: Square
- Stato del copyright: Soggetti a copyright
- Movimento: Neo Expressionism
- Intensità del colore: Balanced
- Luminosità percepita: brilliant