Gladiators
Guston painted Gladiators in a social-realist style favored by many left-leaning artists in the 1930s, a style that reflected in part the political and aesthetic influence of the Mexican muralist movement led by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. At the time he painted Gladiators, Guston was painting murals in New York as part of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program. Hooded Klansmen first appeared in his work of the 1930s, in response to a Ku Klux Klan attack on one of his Los Angeles murals. Of these figures, Guston said, “They are self-portraits. I perceive myself as being behind the hood. … I almost tried to imagine that I was living with the Klan. What would it be like to be evil?”
필립 거스턴 (1913 – 1980)
필립 거스턴(1913-1980)은 추상표현주의에서 인종차별, 정체성, 정치적 풍자를 탐구하는 가공되지 않은 구상 미술로 진화한 것으로 알려진 중추적인 캐나다계 미국인 예술가입니다. 뉴욕 학파의 핵심 인물입니다.

