Philip Guston And The Unpredictable

Philip Guston, Head and Bottle, 1975

Philip Guston once stated, "You work to divest yourself of what you know.  I want to end with something that will baffle me for some time."  To divest means "to rid of or free from."  Guston freed us from the way things should look and took our imaginations to where anything is possible.  According to Wikipedia, " In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from abstract expressionism to neo-expressionism in painting, abandoning the so-called "pure abstraction" of abstract expressionism in favor of more cartoonish renderings of various personal symbols and objects."  Viewing art can be a learning experience, as we free our minds from preconceived ideas.  Enjoy!