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Balthus
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Balthus, artist
Born: 29 February, 1908, in Paris Died: 18 February, 2001, in
Rossiniere, Switzerland, aged 92
BALTHUS, widely hailed as one of the 20th century's greatest
realist painters, was best known for his provocative portrayal of
young women, often with surreal elements in the background.
A self-taught figurative painter, he had been an influential
force in the art world for more than six decades, during which time
he completed some 300 canvases. But as a person he long remained a
mystery to all but a few intimate friends. "Balthus is a painter of
whom nothing is known," was his ...
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Philip Guston: Abstract Expressionism's provocative pioneer and ultimate critic
Magazine article from: USA Today
; ...painting and drawing that influenced younger artists, Philip Guston (1913-80) courageously changed styles according...response to social and political issues of the day. "Philip Guston . . . reflects influences ranging from the great Italian...
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Philip Guston.(Notes & Comments)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review
; ...anywhere are intolerable. --Philip Guston, "Faith, Hope and Impossibility...venality he railed against. Guston's "no more crapola," a phrase he and Philip Roth cooked up, is a rubric...project of painting itself. Guston, as we know from recollections...
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Philip Guston: abstract expressionism's provocative pioneer and ultimate critic.(Museum Today)(Biography)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine)
; ...painting and drawing that influenced younger artists, Philip Guston (1913-80) courageously changed styles according...response to social and political issues of the day. "Philip Guston ... reflects influences ranging from the great Italian...
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Philip Guston: some thoughts: sparked by a traveling retrospective (currently at London's Royal Academy) and a recent memoir of the painter, the author proposes some new frames of reference for thinking about Guston's art.(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...ideal world, there would exist somewhere a Philip Guston Museum, in which a generous selection of Guston's paintings and drawings would be permanently...occasional gallery show. When it comes to Guston, however, I feel a constant, almost physical...
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Telling tales.(Painter Philip Guston's career examined)(Critical Essay)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; ...s traveling retrospective "Philip Guston," Artforum asked art historian...LIKE MANY A GOOD STORY, Philip Guston's art starts in earnest with...his colleagues in nominating Guston as his anti-type: "Philip, you are the best storyteller...
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Ars poetica. ('poem-pictures' of Philip Guston)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; When, around 1970, Philip Guston withdrew from the New York art...traveling exhibition titled "Philip Guston's Poem-Pictures" opened at...incorporate her poems.(1) In Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir, the...
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"PHILIP GUSTON: PAINTINGS 1947-1979".(Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany)
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; KUNSTMUSEUM, BONN Philip Guston accomplished the neat trick of painting with one eye on his past...curator. How to capture all those circlings and anticipations? "Philip Guston: Paintings 1947-1979" skips the first fifteen years of the...
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Philip Guston at David McKee. (New York).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...distant memory. But in the summer of 1971, painter Philip Guston and novelist Philip Roth bonded during weekly dinners in the Catskills...conjunction with their publication in the book Philip Guston's Poor Richard, by art historian Debra Bricker...
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Philip Guston
Magazine article from: Artforum
; Philip Guston MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM The supposedly big change in Philip Guston's art occurred in the late 1960s, when he switched from his refined...
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Visual Art: Know what? The artist didn't The Art of Philip Guston Royal Academy of Arts LONDON
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; In 1960, Philip Guston did a radio interview with the late...see this in the way art history tells Philip Guston's story. In the 1940s, at the start...independent.co.uk `The Art of Philip Guston 1913-1980': Royal Academy of Arts...
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