Philip Guston: Late Works : Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Rückblick exhibition
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The courageous and quite extraordinary oeuvre of US painter Philip Guston (1913–1980) was one of the most controversial of the age. He was the first painter to return to figuration in the post-War era and was quite pioneering in linking high art and images from popular culture, so that today many celebrate him as the trailblazer of postmodern, figurative painting. In 1950, though self-taught Guston earned his spurs in the New York art world as defined by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, and emerged as one of the major champions of Abstract Expressionism.
