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Tuesday 17 October 2023

Artlyst - R B Kitaj And Philip Guston: Figurative Painting Celebrated

My latest exhibition review for Artlyst is on ‘R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles’ at Piano Nobile with mention of 'Philip Guston' at Tate Modern:

'Painting has been declared dead many times as it has reeled under the double-barrelled attack of photography and conceptual art. Similarly, figurative art has at points been counted out in opposition to abstraction and art for art’s sake. Nevertheless, both have survived, enabling us to have our cake and eat it in an art world where conceptual art, digital art, installation art, painting (including figuration and abstraction), performance art, photography, sculpture, and video art all co-exist and interact.

Two artists whose dogged persistence with figurative art, in the face of more reductive critical perceptions of art, enabled us to reach this place of diversity are currently having major retrospectives in London: Philip Guston and R.B. Kitaj.'

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