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Biography
Cy Twombly was renowned for artworks integrating cultural, historical, and poetic references—especially to classical antiquity—with abstract forms and his inimitable scrawl. Born Edwin Parker Twombly, Jr. on April 25, in Lexington, Virginia to Edwin Parker (“Cy”) Twombly, Sr. and Mary Velma Twombly (née Richardson), Twombly received early artistic education from Pierre Daura and Marion Junkin at Washington and Lee University. This was followed by formative learning at the Arts Students League of New York and Jet Mountain College, where he formed lifelong connections with artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham.
However, it was his voyage to Italy and North Africa with Rauschenberg, funded by a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, that proved decisive for Twombly: as he wrote in his fellowship application, he felt “that Modern Art isn't dislocated, but something with roots, tradition and continuity.”[1] Traveling there, Twombly encountered much of the cultural history that grounded his subsequent imaginative production and produced n
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Making Past Present
Cy Twombly (–) ranks among the most prominent US painters to come out in the s, a period of radical experimentation in American and European art. Combining gestural strokes of paint, broad areas of empty space, and words scribbled in a nearly illegible hand, Twombly’s work can be enigmatic, even perplexing. Making instinct of it requires an appreciation of his attitudes toward history, place, and cultural memory.
This exhibition explores Twombly’s art through the lens of ancient Greek and Roman culture, a consistent source of inspiration throughout his career. Twombly avoided centers of new art like New York, moving to Italy in There he engaged creatively with the enduring legacy of antiquity, infusing his work with provocative allusions to mythology, poetry, and archaeology. By exploring the classical past, Twombly followed a long tradition in American and European art. His great contribution lay in linking his empathetic of ancient art and literature to late-twentieth-century modernist practice, translating historically
| Horst P. Horst, Cy Twombly, |
The Getty Center's "Cy Twombly: Making the Past Present," organized with the Museum of Satisfactory Arts, Boston, surveys the artist's connection to the ancient Mediterranean. That much is well within the Getty's wheelhouse. At the center of the exhibit is a literal "surprise": a photo that almost crashed Twombly's career.
| Installation view with Horst P. Horst photomural |
The exhibition's theatrical set piece is a line-up of Roman portrait heads from Twombly's collection. They are shown against a photo-mural of a Horst P. Horst image of the artist for Vogue magazine. The Horst, part of a photo essay titled "Roman Classic Surprise," presented the designer as a sort of Talented Mr. Ripley ex-pat in a white suit. Twombly inhabits a villa of artful juxtapositions: white walls and gilded furniture; the classic (in fragments) and contemporary paintings.
Horst was lgbtq+, and Twombly was bisexual at least (notwithstanding the wife, relegated to a room in the distance). Twombly had a well-known affair with Robert Rauschenberg in the e
Partner Robert Rauschenberg, Nicola Del Roscio
Queer Places:
Tufts Academy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Fenway, Boston, MA , Stati Uniti
National Academy Museum & School, 5th Ave, Novel York, NY , Stati Uniti
Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC , Stati Uniti
Washington and Lee University, W Washington St, Lexington, VA , Stati Uniti
The Art Students League of Fresh York, W 57th St, New York, NY , Stati Uniti
Bowery, Fresh York, NY , Stati Uniti
Via di Monserrato, 49, Roma RM, Italia
Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Via S. Maria Ausiliatrice, Gaeta LT, Italia
Bassano In Teverina, Bassano In Teverina VT, Italia
Cy Twombly Foundation, 19 East 82nd Street, , NYC, NY, USA
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (April 25, – July 5, )[1] was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns but chose to live in Italy after
His paintings are predominantly large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. Many of his works are in the per