Philip Guston's Recklessness

Philip Guston, Signals, 1975, Cincinnati Art Museum, Bequest of Musa Guston
Philip Guston, Signals, 1975, Cincinnati Art Museum, Bequest of Musa Guston

Kim Krause ponders Philip Guston's painting Signals, 1975, in the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Krause writes: "the painting presents a visual paradox of the artist’s inseparability of knowing/not knowing; the painting as result, sum, residue of action and real-time experience. Planning and execution become intertwined. Process and object become fused. It is a display of virtuosity and recklessness in the pursuit of truth. We become the explored and the explorer; simultaneously lost and found within the authentic."

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