1963, Philip Guston, Painter III -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the NGA label: When Guston returned to painting on canvas after a year mostly away from it, he began reducing his palette to black and white. The new paintings were done rapidly to force himself to paint wet-into-wet, with black and white blending on the canvas with other colors to create a variety of grays. As he explained, "This form has to emerge, or grow, out of the working on it." Later, Guston associated works from this period with the golem, a humanlike being that, according to Jewish lore, was made from mud by a medieval rabbi and wielded great powers of both good and evil.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition "Philip Guston Now".
1963, Philip Guston, Painter III -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the NGA label: When Guston returned to painting on canvas after a year mostly away from it, he began reducing his palette to black and white. The new paintings were done rapidly to force himself to paint wet-into-wet, with black and white blending on the canvas with other colors to create a variety of grays. As he explained, "This form has to emerge, or grow, out of the working on it." Later, Guston associated works from this period with the golem, a humanlike being that, according to Jewish lore, was made from mud by a medieval rabbi and wielded great powers of both good and evil.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition "Philip Guston Now".