Philip Guston American, born Canada, 1913–1980
Bad Times
1970
Philip Guston's 'Bad Times' (1969) belongs to Guston's controversial late switch from Abstract Expressionism to cartoon-like figurative painting. Hooded Klansmen, brick walls, and bare lightbulbs are rendered in his characteristic chalky pink and raw red, a moral-satirical vocabulary that scandalised colleagues but reshaped late 20th-century painting. Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago