テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「’Probably the only thing one can really learn, the only technique to learn, is the capacity to be able to change.’ #GetToKnow one of the 20th century’s most captivating painters, Philip Guston. Born in Montreal, Canada, in 1913, Guston was the youngest of seven born to a Jewish couple who came to North America after fleeing antisemitism in present day Ukraine. Canada seemed to offer shelter, yet the family found life difficult, and in 1919 they moved to Los Angeles. Here they encountered more hardship as well as anti-immigrant sentiment and racism, encapsulated by the growth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. Guston retreated into the fantasy world of comics, and started drawing and painting. Guston was school friends with Jackson Pollock at Manual Arts High School and started to paint murals, inspired by Renaissance painters and Mexican muralists. Towards the end of the 1940s he began experimenting with abstraction and was at the centre of the abstract expressionist movement in New York in the mid-1950s alongside Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and many others. His paintings featured vibrant brushstrokes and a shimmering use of colour, often pinks, reds and blues. Political turmoil in the U.S. and around the world encouraged Guston to move away from abstraction. He began populating his paintings with hooded figures, reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan who still haunted him from his childhood. He made these paintings in protest against war, injustice, and violence of all kinds. Guston continued to paint in his signature cartoonish style until his death in 1980, creating mysterious compositions with dreamlike clusters of figures and everyday objects. Throughout his lifetime Guston courageously changed styles according to his beliefs and in response to real-life issues. His upcoming exhibition at Tate Modern explores how his paintings continually bridged the personal and the political, the abstract and the figurative, the humorous and the tragic. 🎟️ Book tickets via the link in our bio. 🎟️ 📷 Guston working on 'Work the American Way (Maintaining America's Skills) 1939. Image courtesy of the Guston Foundation and Hauser & Wirth.」9月20日 19時46分