1955, Philip Guston, The Room -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From the museum label: Philip Guston's paintings from the 1950s feature heavily built-up surfaces, with brighter, more vibrant colors clustered toward the center of the canvas, against a muted background. Guston was active in the New York School, a group of Abstract Expressionist painters working in New York in the 1950s. Unlike the so-called Action painters of the group, who employed dramatic gestures as they painted, Guston worked slowly and methodically, building up multiple layers of paint. He often described the artistic process as a mysterious one, arguing that one need not understand what the picture is or how exactly it comes into being to appreciate it.
1955, Philip Guston, The Room -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From the museum label: Philip Guston's paintings from the 1950s feature heavily built-up surfaces, with brighter, more vibrant colors clustered toward the center of the canvas, against a muted background. Guston was active in the New York School, a group of Abstract Expressionist painters working in New York in the 1950s. Unlike the so-called Action painters of the group, who employed dramatic gestures as they painted, Guston worked slowly and methodically, building up multiple layers of paint. He often described the artistic process as a mysterious one, arguing that one need not understand what the picture is or how exactly it comes into being to appreciate it.