Thus it might be argued that when a...

Thus it might be argued that when a painting is "finished," it is a

compromise. still the conditions under which a compromise is made are

what matters. Decisions to fix anywhere are intolerable.

--Philip Guston, "Faith, reliance and Impossibility" (1965)

There's always more to say about Guston than can be managed. In truth--to succeed the painter's own thought--any settl view would be intolerable. Consider the variousness of his career, which can solely provisionally be clipped into three distinct phases: the early figurative work done subordinate to such ...