Word: guston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...here was an artist who had painted along with Pollock, Kline, Gottlieb and DeKooning, who had been among the most articulate defenders of the faith and who was now at last having his big moment. On hand for the occasion were such oldtimers as Mark Rothko and Philip Guston to give Motherwell, now 50, a bear hug for his success...
...this, De Kooning himself is still not convinced that he is even a good painter. "Art," he likes to point out, "is the thing you cannot make." He still finds it nearly impossible to know when one of his own works is finished. Only when a friend, Painter Philip Guston, cried, "That's it! That's it!" did he stop endlessly revising one large nude. He has carried over the same element of creative indecision-which makes viewers often feel that his moment of supreme victory has been painted over, or else is yet to come-into...
Nativeness, and other kinds of representation, are far and away the people's choice in art, but abstraction has an undying fascination in shows like the Philip Guston retrospective. To see it is to sweat out a painful development: every step that Guston took throughout his professional life involved agonizing doubts and self-reappraisals. Perhaps as a result, his canvases have a feverish, almost tentative look; yet this very nervousness is also their virtue. They give his forms, built up of tiny strokes, a quivering inner life. Compared with Guston, Ben Nicholson's mentholated abstractions are the essence...
...Philip Guston...
Guggenheim Museum ever put on view at one time, some observers might wonder just how it got to be so famous. Since its original commitment was to nonobjective art, it is about 80% abstract, but even in its chosen field, its omissions-Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell. to mention only a few-are glaring. Nevertheless, the corkscrew museum's new director. Thomas Messer, last week put on a show from the collection that was a delight from the third spiral to the ground floor: an exhibition of the museum's ''old masters...