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What is Philip Guston's later work like?

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During the latter part of his life, from the late 1960s on, Guston's work changed startlingly. His new paintings, which shockingly departed from his previous refinement, were figurative and strangeÑnightmarishly cartoonish in image, blunt in approach, and often charged with social consciousness.

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