Phillips Collection features Philip Guston's Roma

by YankeeJim | February 21, 2011 at 06:30 pm

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http://www.phillipscollection.org/exhibitions/philip_guston_roma/index.aspx

There is a lot going on with Guston’s paintings that are in a narrow pallet of reds, pinks, black and a very occasional orange. I like the photo of the artist in his working environment in Italy. You can see how he is influenced by it, yet his treatment is so very different. Shoes, cigars, KKK images pop into what seems to be Italian architectural remnants. See the work to see what I mean.

“Philip Guston, Roma brings together for the first time 39 paintings from Philip Guston's Roma series, produced during his six months as artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in 1970–71. Saturated in deep pinks and salmons, Guston’s cartoon-like pictures evoke numerous aspects of the ancient and modern Roman cityscape and Italian art and culture, from the films of Federico Fellini to the works of both modern and Renaissance Italian artists.”