Holocaust Guston Painting with Eyeballs

24 Oct

Sounds like a ghoul’s dessert.

Philip Guston (nee Goldstein) is my all-time favorite painter.  His later work consists of anti-semitic themes like the KKK and piles of tangled legs reminiscent of Holocaust graves.  And Jewish themes like the random eyeball-head facing the sky, asking why, looking for God, or looking downward, inward.

In college I made a painting that represents to me the Holocaust:

Margelit Hoffman artist and painting Holocaust Guston

complete with a lippy eyeball:

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