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 canadense-americano que revolucionou a arte com sua transição do expressionismo abstrato para figuras impactantes, explorando temas como racismo e identidade americana.
Sobre esta obra
- Título: Head and Bottle
- Artista: Philip Guston
- Ano: 1975
- Formato: Square
- Status dos direitos autorais: Protegido por direitos autorais
- Movimento: Neo Expressionism
- Intensidade de cor: Balanced
- Brilho percebido: brilliant