“We know that Guston made the decision to portray the world as represented by the clenched fist. The artistic means he used to do so and that first turn up In the drawings have been debated: his early interest in cartoons, namely the comics of George Herriman and later of Robert Crumb, his
fascination for the paintings and drawings of Max Beckmann, which he was able to see as early as 1938 in New York and especially to study during
his years of teaching in St. Louis (1945-1947). Beckmann did not only appeal to him thematically; or his new works Guston also borrowed his method of drawing closed contours around the figures.
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- bill 3-11-2015 1:52 pm
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