Quote of the day
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Philip Guston
Born: June 27, 1913
Died: June 7, 1980 (aged 66)
Bio: Philip Guston, born Phillip Goldstein, was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
Known for:
- Red Painting (1950)
- To Fellini (1958)
- If This Be Not I (1945)
- Painting, Smoking, Eating (1972)