{"id":24114,"title":"Law","dimensions":"76 x 81 cm","date_begin":"1968-01-01","material":"acrylic on panel","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":181,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Private Collection, Waalre (Netherlands)","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":17,"permalink":"law","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/053/664/medium_500/Guston__Law.jpg?1586418843","cached_actor_names":"Philip Guston","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Painting","nl":"Schilderij","fr":""},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/053/664/large/Guston__Law.jpg?1586418843","poster_credits":"Private Collection, Waalre, The Netherlands. Photo: Peter Cox","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilip Guston was a Canadian-American painter who was part of the New York School of artists together with other abstract expressionist painters such as Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. In the 1960s, he transitioned into making neo-expressionist paintings, which were figurative and cartoonish, using a personal lexicon of symbols and objects, which became his best-known paintings. From 1968, he developed his lexicon of symbols, which included Ku Klux Klansmen, shoes, cigarettes and lightbulbs, amongst other things. Many of the symbols were biographical, giving his paintings an existential character. His parents were Ukranian Jews who fled persecution in Odessa, Ukraine, and moved first to Canada where he was born, and then to Los Angeles. He and his family knew of the activities of the Ku Klux Klan against Jewish and black people in California, and in 1923, the young Guston found his father had hanged himself in the shed, possibly due to persecution. The painting \u003cem\u003eLaw\u003c/em\u003e depicts a Klansman looking at an open red book. On the one hand lugubrious and outlandish, the painting can also be seen to reflect on injustice in the face of white supremacy.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilip Guston (1913-1980) was een Canadees-Amerikaanse schilder die samen met andere abstract-expressionistische schilders zoals Willem de Kooning en Jackson Pollock deel uitmaakte van de zogenaamde New York School. In de jaren 1960 begon Guston neo-expressionistische schilderijen te maken, die figuratief en cartoonachtig waren. Vanaf 1968 ontwikkelde hij een persoonlijk lexicon van symbolen en objecten, waaruit zijn bekendste schilderijen ontstonden. Symbolen zijn onder meer Ku Klux Klan-mannen, schoenen, sigaretten en gloeilampen. Veel daarvan waren biografisch, waardoor zijn schilderijen een existentieel karakter kregen. Gustons ouders waren Oekra\u0026iuml;ense joden die voor vervolging in Odessa, in Oekra\u0026iuml;ne, waren gevlucht en eerst naar Canada trokken, waar hij werd geboren, en vervolgens naar Los Angeles. Guston en zijn gezin waren op de hoogte van de activiteiten van de Ku Klux Klan tegen joodse en zwarte mensen in Californi\u0026euml;, en in 1923 ontdekte de jonge Guston dat zijn vader zich had opgehangen in de schuur, mogelijk omdat hij vervolgd werd. Het schilderij \u003cem\u003eLaw\u003c/em\u003e stelt een KKK-man voor die naar een opengeslagen rood boek kijkt. Langs de ene kant is het luguber en bizar, maar het kan ook worden gezien als een weerspiegeling van het onrecht dat \u0026lsquo;white supremacy\u0026rsquo;-aanhangers begaan.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilip Guston \u0026eacute;tait un peintre canado-am\u0026eacute;ricain qui faisait partie de la New York School of Artists avec d\u0026#39;autres peintres expressionnistes abstraits tels que Willem de Kooning et Jackson Pollock. Dans les ann\u0026eacute;es 1960, il se tourna vers la cr\u0026eacute;ation de peintures n\u0026eacute;o-expressionnistes, figuratives et caricaturales, en utilisant un lexique personnel de symboles et d\u0026#39;objets. Elles devinrent ses \u0026oelig;uvres les plus connues. \u0026Agrave; partir de 1968, il d\u0026eacute;veloppa son lexique des symboles, qui comprenait entre autres des hommes du Ku Klux Klan, des chaussures, des cigarettes et des ampoules. Beaucoup de symboles \u0026eacute;taient biographiques, donnant \u0026agrave; ses peintures un caract\u0026egrave;re existentiel. Ses parents \u0026eacute;taient des Juifs ukrainiens qui avaient fui la pers\u0026eacute;cution \u0026agrave; Odessa, en Ukraine. Ils s\u0026#39;\u0026eacute;taient d\u0026#39;abord install\u0026eacute;s au Canada, o\u0026ugrave; il naquit, avant de d\u0026eacute;m\u0026eacute;nager \u0026agrave; Los Angeles. Lui et sa famille \u0026eacute;taient au courant des activit\u0026eacute;s du Ku Klux Klan contre les Juifs et les Noirs en Californie et en 1923, le jeune Guston d\u0026eacute;couvrit que son p\u0026egrave;re s\u0026#39;\u0026eacute;tait pendu dans le hangar, peut-\u0026ecirc;tre en raison de pers\u0026eacute;cutions. Le tableau \u003cem\u003eLaw\u003c/em\u003e repr\u0026eacute;sente un homme du Klan qui regarde un livre rouge ouvert. Lugubre et extravagante d\u0026rsquo;une part, la peinture peut \u0026eacute;galement \u0026ecirc;tre vue comme une r\u0026eacute;flexion sur l\u0026#39;injustice face \u0026agrave; la supr\u0026eacute;matie blanche.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}