{"id":10617,"date":"2024-04-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10617"},"modified":"2024-04-23T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T15:01:08","slug":"philip-guston-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/26\/philip-guston-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Guston at the Metropolitan Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the late 60s, abstract artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipguston.org\/home\">Philip Guston<\/a> stopped painting, then restarted his practice by building a new, figurative artistic vocabulary.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/893986\">Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s<\/a> newly installed mezzanine gallery features solitary painted objects &#8211; a lightbulb, a shoe &#8211; on small canvases that demonstrate how the artist weighed up the meaning and import of everyday objects that he would later repeat. This untitled painting shows a partial view of the artist himself, apparently painted over and covering another image. Wide-eyed and looking straight at the viewer, Guston is only partially visible, but his wary stare speaks volumes about his desire to communicate.\u00a0 (On view on the Upper East Side in the Met\u2019s \u2018Philip Guston: The Panel Paintings, 1968-72 which includes work from Musa Guston Mayer\u2019s promised gift.)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/ce5800d3-7001-7f30-5146-1fb068e4e1a4.jpg\" width=\"2249\" height=\"2691\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Guston, Untitled, acrylic on panel, 1968.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 60s, abstract artist Philip Guston stopped painting, then restarted his practice by building a new, figurative artistic vocabulary.\u00a0 The Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s newly installed mezzanine gallery features solitary painted objects &#8211; a lightbulb, a shoe &#8211; on small canvases that demonstrate how the artist weighed up the meaning and import of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/26\/philip-guston-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Philip Guston at the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[18,2752,3318,10855,289,33,956,2039],"class_list":["post-10617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-artist","tag-eyes","tag-foundation","tag-looking","tag-met-museum","tag-painting","tag-philip-guston","tag-self-portrait"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2Lf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10618,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions\/10618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}