I like the idea of painting with clay; I remembered a favorite painter from art school while I was working today.
Philip Guston (June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a notable painter and
printmaker in the
New York School, which included many of the
Abstract expressionists, such as
Jackson Pollock and
Willem De Kooning. 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.
"Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out." -Philip Guston
I've been working on a series of realistic sculpture-relief portraits. Today was the first day that, as Philip Guston so eloquently said, "I walked out." I am getting ready to show some of the new works to a gallery in Portland.
Planning on firing the new sculptures with a blue glaze.
