Our sculpture teacher gave us an assignment this monday: To make a sculpture based on a painting by Philip Guston. He had also brought a book. I looked at it, and to my great surprise I had found a third pyramid. The painting on the cover is called “Pyramid and shoe”.
Guston, who first was an abstract expressionist, begun painting cartoonesque images of his everyday life and looking at them is like taking part of it.
About the painting pyramid and shoe:
“In pyramid and shoe (1977) the two objects named meet litteraly on an equal footing. The latter being no less rooted in place than the former, it represents the individual and the ephemeral confronting the anonumous , the collective and the eternal”.
cat. nr: GUS 3
keyword: pyramid
