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ART & DESIGN
Photos by: Art Blart
Cy Twombly
E merging from the New the twentieth century, including scale in multiple-panel works – an subversive but elementally human.
York art world of the Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, enigmatic world of iconography, Twombly explained that each
1950s, Cy Twombly and Minimalism. metaphor, and myth. line is the actual experience of
(born 1928 in Lexington, Virginia) Twombly was inspired by ancient In the only written statement making the line, adding, “It does
brought a distinctive approach Mediterranean history, geography, that Twombly ever made about not illustrate. It is the sensation of
to painting and sculpture that mythology, and epic poetry. He his work, he tried to clarify his its own realization.” Years later he
evaded precise affiliation with created – sometimes on a grand intentions, saying they were not described this more plainly.
the predominant movements of
“It’s more like I’m having an experience than making a picture.”
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