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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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Is the last sentence expressing Guston's complaining of his hitherto abstract style that whenever he got frustrated he would create abstract paintings (putting reds beside blues)? Does it imply that at the time of speech he no longer produces abstract paintings?
I mean is he talking about his decision to change his style in the future or is he talking about that he has changed his style?
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After the explosion of the nuclear bomb where could art go? Philip
Guston’s artistic style went through markedly different periods, an earlier abstract expressionism mutating towards the ironic shrug implicit in his clumsy cartoonish cityscapes, the tragic-comedy of his squat pink man surrounded by incipient violence – clenched fists, hooded faces, piles of boots – or an untidy indifference – wonky alarm clocks, bottles, trash cans. ‘When the middle 60s came along,’ Guston said, ‘I was feeling split, schizophrenic. The war, what was happening in America, the brutality of the world.…What kind of man am I…going into frustrated fury about everything – and then going into my studio to adjust a red to a blue?’
I mean is he talking about his decision to change his style in the future or is he talking about that he has changed his style?
Context:
After the explosion of the nuclear bomb where could art go? Philip
Guston’s artistic style went through markedly different periods, an earlier abstract expressionism mutating towards the ironic shrug implicit in his clumsy cartoonish cityscapes, the tragic-comedy of his squat pink man surrounded by incipient violence – clenched fists, hooded faces, piles of boots – or an untidy indifference – wonky alarm clocks, bottles, trash cans. ‘When the middle 60s came along,’ Guston said, ‘I was feeling split, schizophrenic. The war, what was happening in America, the brutality of the world.…What kind of man am I…going into frustrated fury about everything – and then going into my studio to adjust a red to a blue?’
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I think it means his moods and world-focus were erratic. One moment he was in a random fury about gigantic important things in the real world, the next moment doing something patient on something outwardly really unimportant as if the world outside didn't exist. Noting the earlier question about adjusting a red to a blue, it could here mean changing (a patch of) one colour into/toward another.
- I think it means his moods and world-focus were erratic.
- One moment he was in a random fury about gigantic important things in the real world, the next moment doing something patient on something outwardly really unimportant as if the world outside didn't exist.
- Noting the earlier question about adjusting a red to a blue, it could here mean changing (a patch of) one colour into/toward another.
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I think it means his moods and world-focus were erratic. One moment he was in a random fury about gigantic important things in the real world, the next moment doing something patient on something outwardly really unimportant as if the world outside didn't exist.
Noting the earlier question about adjusting a red to a blue, it could here mean changing (a patch of) one colour into/toward another.
Noting the earlier question about adjusting a red to a blue, it could here mean changing (a patch of) one colour into/toward another.
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red appleI mean is he talking about his decision to change his style in the future or is he talking about that he has changed his style?The history of the changes in his style is not included in the quote, so Guston himself is not saying anything about those things. Here's what Guston said and what it means:
I was feeling split, schizophrenic. The w
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@meteorquake When you get furious you do not change red colors to blue ones, but vice versa. I think it dose not make sense. Maybe the best description is to mix and find a red color that is harmonized to an existing blue color, to put it on the canvas. And taking account of his furiousness I think it can mean to fi
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Hello red apple!
My suggestion I made is that there's no hidden intellectual symbolism being made with the colours. He's furious about people being killed and tortured in lands ripped apart and blown up and he's saying there he is going in to his studio carrying on with tasks as if everything was gentle and fine or non-existent in the world around.
You'll see CJ interpreted in a simar way.
My suggestion I made is that there's no hidden intellectual symbolism being made with the colours. He's furious about people being killed and tortured in lands ripped apart and blown up and he's saying there he is going in to his studio carrying on with tasks as if everything was gentle and fine or non-existent in the world around.
You'll see CJ interpreted in a simar way.
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