Philip Guston: Hilarious And Horrifying

Rpbert Storr looks at the work of Philip Guston, whose 1969 work “The Studio” is pictured: ‘In much the same way as Brahms composed variations on themes from Haydn, Handel, Paganini, and Schumann, making their melodies his own by means of elaborate musical embroidery, Guston proved a skilled adapter of diverse sources, motifs, and mannerisms that came together in his hands as compelling, if still formative, works.”

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