Philip Guston: the restless artist painting everyday evil

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Philip Guston: the restless artist painting everyday evil | Tate

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9 ай бұрын

Note: This film includes reference to racism and imagery of racist violence and the Ku Klux Klan.
Philip Guston thought hard about the artist's responsibility to bear witness to ‘the brutality of the world‘. Consistently changing and reinventing, he sought to make work that embodies life’s complexities, its beauty, absurdity, humour and suffering.
In this short film, curators Michael Wellen and Michael Raymond, conservator Anna Cooper and the artist's daughter, Musa Mayer, recount the story of Guston's life and career, as well as his restless urge to challenge himself creatively.
This film was created as part of the Terra Foundation for American Art Series: New Perspectives.
It includes extracts from the following documentaries:
Philip Guston: A Life Lived, directed by Michael Blackwood (New York: Michael Blackwood Productions, 1981).
Conversations with Philip Guston, directed by Michael Blackwood (New York: Michael Blackwood Productions, 2003).
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@jacksonhartgraves 8 ай бұрын

I’ve been waiting for something like this about Phillip Guston for so long. Wonderful video, that brings lots of inspiration. Thank you!

@TheLunarnotes 8 ай бұрын

I had been a fan of his work for a long time but Ai had absolutely no idea that the work he’s famous for was only produced in the last tens years of his life! And also before that he was actually a brilliant draughtsman and abstract painter. Blown away. He painted like an outsider on purpose.

@jpcolindesign517 6 ай бұрын

Going this weekend! I am a student at the RCA in London, and I am SO EXCITED to see his work!

@NY_Mountain_Man 8 ай бұрын

Wow. What beautiful art. Like, I know some people would call it scary. But how he turns those rather vile people into the demons is just beautiful.

@ingridllinas5612 8 ай бұрын

The mural is outstanding! How sweet to paint his wife and then show her portrait the next morning. The abstract paintings were inspired by the American abstractionist, but I rather like his roman inspiration and murals. Cartoonish are very self awareness. I love his piles, feets. Wet oil paintings are great. Thanks so much.

@jfu5222 7 ай бұрын

I never knew how far back he started, truly unique and ahead of his time.

@Warrenified 8 ай бұрын

My first time learning of Guston - chills.

@user-sb1sh3jx7w 8 ай бұрын

I am a painter and really see an affinity in myself with the way he uses black line, makes the paintings look chaulky with white and clusters rounded blocks. I have an aversion to meaty reds and pinks, though and couldn't bring myself to paint whole, large works in that manner!

@heraldeventsandfilms5970 8 ай бұрын

This is not about YOU.

@cringetingles 8 ай бұрын

One of the greatest of all time. a huge influence for me as an art student in university!

@davidmayhew8083 3 ай бұрын

But nobody could compare with his style! Or compete with it. He's so inimitable! What artist doesnt envy him?! One great artist indeed!

@user-to2gh7sg3l 8 ай бұрын

The brush strokes and energy reminds me of Cy Twombly.

@nocheapdopamine725 7 ай бұрын

I think you’ve just introduced me to my favorite painter :)

@toriahennesey 8 ай бұрын

Really good, nicely done.

@TheDreadfulCurtain 8 ай бұрын

We badly need another Guston right now I would have loved to have seen his version of Trump and MAGA, (after seeing his Nixon paintings) plus how he would depict other far right figures here in the U.K. and the wider world. It seems we need to revisit his work and look carefully at the sad and ugly themes he explored so well in his work. I love seeing how his work evolved over time he had a lot of courage to break with the “abstract expressionists. But it paid off he was a truly great artist with his own language of symbols, unique colour palette and his works carry a timely message . I will never tire of his work nor their message.

@nicholashauser4575 8 ай бұрын

Well said sir.

@matthewspire1825 8 ай бұрын

Notice how he wasn’t being so specific with the characters, more the subject of evil. Biden, Trump even Obama live under those white hoods.

@joeyj6808 5 ай бұрын

"There were giants in those days..." We need someone of Guston's genius today.

@nickrodis6862 8 ай бұрын

Salamat po

@lauravenables100 8 ай бұрын

Sunning work. A life long inspiration

@brendanawesomeness 8 ай бұрын

I wish I had canvases that big to work on

@juicy_mango_paradise 5 ай бұрын

get some, its worth it!

@esthercastle1163 8 ай бұрын

People should go and see the exhibition at the tate if they can it's amazing :)

@emilik.5029 2 ай бұрын

i feel like my life has changed forever now that i know about him

@DannyHouk 7 ай бұрын

Chunky, lyrical, liminal, funny, melancholy, figurative, surreal, heavy, playful, confessional, wobbly, dense, deadpan, visceral, deteriorating, buoyant, big, quiet. His shit has so much happening in it.

@khemetbey803 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for this educative video

@mattweisbart4061 Ай бұрын

Wonderful video. Thank you for sharing.

@camilomedina7725 8 ай бұрын

inspired af

@ruthjames9278 8 ай бұрын

Cant wait to visit

@user-to2gh7sg3l 8 ай бұрын

Some of his work has a very Outsider art feel.

@amitnaamani6207 7 ай бұрын

His abstract works are unbelievable... He is a true artist 🎨

@darylcumming7119 8 ай бұрын

Thank you. 😊

@FineArtbyAldo 8 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@apanhadordearrepios 4 ай бұрын

amazing painter

@arcofprado 8 ай бұрын

amazing

@JhoanRoa 8 ай бұрын

My Hero ❤

@ArtMarketExplained 6 ай бұрын

9:38 Great work

@kevenquinlan 8 ай бұрын

hmm. Well, it's hard to know what to think except that he was talented enough to paint in many styles and he defined his existence by not sticking with any one of them. Alright- to each his own. I don't love a lot of the stuff he did- but then some genres I find fantastic. I suppose that's a better compliment then for what I have for a Mondrian, where I like a few pieces, but as they are almost all the same, the love affair ends there. I live my life in a way that the differences of the experiences define who I am, not what the experiences are. It didn't make for the best Life either.

@arockj 8 ай бұрын

Lovely video...Guston has always been one of my favorites. If there is new-comers to Guston here, I highly recommend reading the book his daughter wrote, called "Night Studio"

@RNP-1668 8 ай бұрын

WHEN OUR MINDSET CHANGES,ALMOST EVERYTHING AROUND US CAN BE READY TO COMBINE TOGETHER THEN IT CAN BECOME POWERFUL. 当我们的心态改变时，我们周围的几乎所有事物都可以准备好结合在一起，然后变得强大。 RULES ARE ACTUALLY GIVING US A TEST TO IMPROVE OURSELVES HOW BEST WE CAN BE IN LIFE. 规则实际上是在考验我们，让我们在生活中如何做到最好。

@kolyas1761 8 ай бұрын

So perfect

@peterorthmann5612 3 ай бұрын

I believe you have said that he was born in Montreal and Ukraine.

@mattweisbart4061 Ай бұрын

He was born in Montreal. His parents were immigrants from Ukraine. I know all about his family history, because we share the same family. He's my great uncle though he was the same age as my grandmother who was also born in Montreal, moved to Los Angeles together, grew up together, and were close friends throughout their lives.

@moniquewells4068 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

@ChamilaGamageArt 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful .

@studiokazuyo 8 ай бұрын

For the abstract painter, the form is challenging. So he gave up. I like his non abstract paintings, especially stitched shoe like objects stumping and talking or KKK stitched. I love his stitches.

@palmfrauds 8 ай бұрын

great! thanks

@tavo8756 8 ай бұрын

11:52 wow!

@numbyounov7038 7 ай бұрын

Looks like Kaws might of been influenced by him

@Ролтун 8 ай бұрын

yes

@tempusnon2157 8 ай бұрын

what is the painting at 1:55 ?

@musamayer 8 ай бұрын

This painting is Mother and Child, from 1930, painted when Guston was only 17 years old.

@commercialpublicart4249 8 ай бұрын

did I hear`prosecution in present day Ukraine` about Philip`s parants. Yep, the same on subtitles. sheck it, please, pretty important issue!

@robykalilla553 Ай бұрын

Agreed, I hope they fix it as they haven't even 7 months after your comment. It probably just slipped by them tbh but still.

@CarlosCalvoG 23 күн бұрын

😍

@dn7096_ 7 ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@michaellakey3565 4 ай бұрын

Who or what did he know or have to get noticed by the media. Contacts, contacts. Talent helps but not an absolute requisite. Someone up high gave him a break, probably big jewish clique in the esp US art world but why change his name away from , ..Stein?

@Nepidemicofmannequins 8 ай бұрын

❤

@ivanklymenko 8 ай бұрын

😍😍😍

@artvsmachine3703 8 ай бұрын

I wish they'd addressed the elephant in the room, but I guess they don't see it. The mature paintings are extremely crude, clumsy, and anti-aesthetic. In fact they are I assume deliberately fugly, especially when compared to his earlier work. Occasionally, and I gather in spite of himself, an attractive painting slips by, but most of them are confrontationally blocky. Mixing red, black, and white is a recipe for ungodly innocuous and repugnant colors. Instead of not even acknowledging this, for an honest appraisal we need to recognize that it was deliberate, and then try to find out what was behind that decision. They are NOT beautiful paintings by a longshot. Alas, art history is just about whatever handy-down ideas the next generation has meekly ingested and then regurgitated on a gilded platter.

@personalelorenzo6922 8 ай бұрын

Theodor Adorno would be proud.

@a01creativecom3 7 ай бұрын

Beauty is above the law. Great artist can do whatever they wish, whether regular people get it or not.

@AdrianaGonzalez-zu3bo 7 ай бұрын

Beauty for the sake of beauty can be an empty distraction and Guston knew this. He was too busy chasing the tail of his creative dragon and that is the ultimate beauty we see in his work.

@dn7096_ 7 ай бұрын

I think he genuinely thought it was beautiful. And so do I 😊

@Eudaimonia88 7 ай бұрын

@artvsmachine3703 The expression "ungodly colours" tells you everything you need to know about the narrow-mindedness of the commentator. Since when does art need to be bound by the paradigms of Western theology?

@AI-Hallucination 8 ай бұрын

20 quids to see him is too much on the back of the paintings it will say not for sale and how can you give the seagrams to Louis Vuitton he hated corporations。

@gege2oo270 7 ай бұрын

Sinnvolle Kunst von Neo Rauch ❤

@AI-Hallucination 8 ай бұрын

Fucking legend

@nancycole-auguste6614 7 ай бұрын

ick

@socialdistancejusticewarri8533 8 ай бұрын

His early work was magnificent. In the late 40's he fell off the deep end and the works were nothing great.

@user-ql7hu9mj1o 7 ай бұрын

The Tate, Houston, Boston and Washington -- Apologise ! - you are Four Hooded Figures

@pavololsavsky8188 7 ай бұрын

This guy is not a genius. He just likes to drow, like anybody, and it's not the best art. I will be ashamed, showing something like that, Do something good for the show..

@mfdoom1898 8 ай бұрын

Man, it must have been amazing to be an artist during that time.... You could paint absolute trash and he famous.

@personalelorenzo6922 8 ай бұрын

You still can. Just make sure you have a gallery with a good network of money launderers to push you

@bugged0ut 6 күн бұрын

Narrator has the most annoying voice of all time.

@pc1972 8 ай бұрын

Mediocre. Very.

@STAR-RADIANCE 8 ай бұрын

I’m a painter, I love art. But I’m not sure that I will ever be able to call this art with a straight face.

@stonedhenge6 8 ай бұрын

why?

@leomah5510 8 ай бұрын

I love art is a scary vague statement that means nothing

@andresbustamantecastillo1506 8 ай бұрын

Keep painting

@Then. 8 ай бұрын

Your post is art. It’s bland. Prosaic. Uncritical. And it elicits engagement, which is pretty much as good a definition of art as you’ll find. Did you even listen and watch the piece? Guston talks about other painters rejecting him for being disturbing. Are you one of these?

@Rexlol 8 ай бұрын

hes not just a good painter , hes fantastic and pivotal.