Joel Nessim
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Joel Nessim
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
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Philip Guston: A Life Lived
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Modern Painting- It was too easy to elicit a response, so much sympathy. Wanted specificity in work.
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Dissolved & Figuration
State of Creation. Stay in that state! "The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes ar
... See more‘There is something ridiculous and miserly in the myth that we inherit from abstract art: That painting is autonomous, pure and for itself, and therefore we habitually analyze its ingredients and define its limits. But painting is ‘impure.’ It is the adjustment of ‘impurities’ which forces painting’s continuity.’[9]
Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971 - Ursula - Hauser & Wirth
look at the quote
Heaven is always very dull, just a lot of people lined up. Like trumpets, they’re all lined up. There’s not much to look at. But when they’re going to hell the painter really goes to town.
Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971 - Ursula - Hauser & Wirth
I see now how it feels to do something new and original. The abstract shit really has taken a deep hold and of course it is really the conservatism of now: ‘Don’t rock the boat, we have come so far.’’[6] But the letter ended with these words all in capital letters:
‘THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO—IT IS ALL BEGINNING!’
‘THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO—IT IS ALL BEGINNING!’
Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971 - Ursula - Hauser & Wirth
Oh yes. Bob Motherwell said— ‘fine paintings but Phil should have left out the objects.’ As they used to say in grammar school, ‘If your Aunt had nuts, she’d be your Uncle.’