CY TWOMBLY MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (1928-2011)
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Attributed to Cy Twombly, no coa, private collection, medium: oil and pastel measurements: 33"HX37"W frame,d mint condition Biography: Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. Twombly influenced artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat. After his return in 1953, Twombly served in the United States Army as a cryptologist, an activity that left a distinct mark on his artistic style.[16] From 1955 to 1959, he worked in New York, where he became a prominent figure among a group of artists including Robert Rauschenberg, with whom he was sharing a studio, and Jasper Johns. Exposure to the emerging New York School purged figurative aspects from his work, encouraging a simplified form of abstraction. He became fascinated with tribal art, using the painterly language of the early 1950s to invoke primitivism, reversing the normal evolution of the New York School. Twombly soon developed a technique of gestural drawing characterized by thin white lines on a dark canvas that appear to be scratched onto the surface. He would apply bitumen on the canvas in a quick and coarse fashion, making the painting tactile and scarred with his energetic, gestural lines that would become his signature style.He stopped making sculptures in 1959 and did not take up sculpting again until 1976.
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CY TWOMBLY MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER (1928-2011)
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