Cy Twombly's graffiti-like scribbles combined aspects of both traditional European sources and the new American painting.
Cy Twombly, an important experimental painter, died yesterday, aged 83
Scribbles, jots, smears, and smudges that make my knees buckle.
The "Cento" or "found" poem below is inspired by Cy Twombly's paintings, and the poetry scribbled, scrawled, scratched, painted over and erased in them. Most of the quotes come from poems CT used in his Quattro Stagioni cycles (Four Seasons; one at the MoMA and one at the Tate), and his epic 13 x 52 foot tripartite poetry-&-paint canvas, Say Goodbye, Catullus to the Shores of Asia Minor. (Quattro Stagioni = Four Seasons: Primavera=Spring, Estate=Summer, Autunno=Fall, Inverno=Winter). Quatt
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Quattro Stagioni: Autunno (1993-5) Cy Twombly Influenced this week by the American Artist Cy Twombly. Read and explore with us about his work and life.
Here is the third selection of works by Cy Twombly, featuring work from the 1990s and 2000s. For biographical and backgound information on Twombly, see part 1. 1990 Liri 1990 Summer Madness 1990 Untitled 1993-4 Quattro Stagioni, Part III, Autunno 2000 Coronation of Sesostris (3) 2000 Coronation of Sesostris (10) 2001 Lepanto (1) 2005 Untitled 2005 Untitled 2005-6 III Notes from Sarah (1) 2008 The Rose II 2010 Camino Real II
Nourri de culture classique – mythologies, littératures gréco-latines, poésie romantique et symboliste – et d’histoire des différents mouvements ayant construit son art, le peintre, photographe et …
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I like Cy Twombly’s work so much, and his oeuvre is spread over such a long period that I am featuring his work over three blogs, dealing first with the 1950s – 1960s, followed by the 1970s – 1980s, and finally the 1990s – 2000s. Twombly is an American artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings. Twombly was born in 1928 in Lexington, Virginia. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. From 1950 to 1951, he studied at the Art Students League of New York where he met Robert Rauschenberg, who encouraged him to attend Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina. At Black Mountain in 1951 and 1952 he studied with Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and Ben Shahn, and met John Cage. The Kootz Gallery in New York organized Twombly's first solo exhibition in 1951. At this time his work was influenced by Kline's black-and-white gestural expressionism, as well as Paul Klee’s imagery. In 1952, he received a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, which enabled him to travel to North Africa, Spain, Italy and France. On his return in 1953 he served in the army as a cryptologist, an activity that left a distinct mark on his artistic style. From 1955 to 1959, he worked in New York, where he became a prominent figure among a group of artists including Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In 1959 he went to Italy, settling permanently in Rome. It was here that he began to work on a larger scale and distanced himself from his former expressionist imagery. Twombly was invited to exhibit his work at the Venice Biennale in 1964. In 1968, the Milwaukee Art Museum mounted the first retrospective of his art. The artist has also been honored by retrospectives at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1987, the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, in 1988, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1994, with additional venues in Houston, Los Angeles, and Berlin. The Cy Twombly Gallery of the Menil Collection in Houston, which was designed by Renzo Piano and opened in 1995, houses more than thirty of Twombly's paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, dating from 1953 to 1994. A large collection of Twombly's work is also kept by the Museum Brandhorst and the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. 1951 Min-Oe 1953 Quazazat 1953 Tiznit 1953 Untitled 1953 Untitled 1955 Free Wheeler 1957 Blue Room 1957 Untitled 1958 The Castle 1959 View 1960 Untitled 1961 Ferragosto 1961 Ferragosto IV 1961 Ferragosto V 1961 Untitled 1963 Leda and the Swan 1964 School of Athens 1968 Untitled
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In my appreciation of Robert Hughes the other day, I quoted Hughes as maintaining that the purpose of art is: To be beautiful. To manifest beauty. People need beauty. There’s a hunger for it…
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In my appreciation of Robert Hughes the other day, I quoted Hughes as maintaining that the purpose of art is: To be beautiful. To manifest beauty. People need beauty. There’s a hunger for it…
Cy Twombly (1929 - 2011), Untitled (Rose), 2008, acrylic and chalk on wood, 252.5 x 187.3 x 1.1 cm. Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection, photo: Nicole Wilhelms, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Museum Brandhorst, Munich © Cy Twombly Foundation....
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24 Original Artworks curated by Bridget Carron, Inspired by Cy Twombly. Original Art Collection created on 3/26/2014.
The opening of Callimachus's 'Hymn to Apollo' as translated by Lombardo and Rayer. The god, patron of archers, poets and musicians, is about to arrive. The signs are all around: trembling, nodding, sweetness and singing in the air. The world is vibrating in expectation of presence. Then the poet veers off into a learned digression on Apollo's names and deeds, which becomes the whole poem: by the time he looks up from his books, the god is sat there giving Envy a kick up the backside.
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