Why do painters represent things? There was a time when the answers seemed obvious. Art glorified power, earthly and divine, and provided moral exemplars of how to behave – in the case of sacred paintings – or how not to in the case of profane ones. When modernism threw all that into doubt, the picture frame remained.
Laura Gascoigne
How Philip Guston became a hero to a new generation of figurative painters
Plus: the crude, complex and ingenious sculpture of Georg Baselitz

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