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1928 Lexington, Virginia - 2011 Rome, Italy. Known for: Improvisational line drawing, minimalism.
Following is the obituary of the artist by Randy Kennedy, The New York Times, July 5, 2011. Cy Twombly, whose spare, childlike scribbles and poetic engagement with antiquity left him stubbornly out... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist by Randy Kennedy, The New York Times, July 5, 2011. Cy Twombly, whose spare, childlike scribbles and poetic engagement with antiquity left him stubbornly out of step with the movements of postwar American art even as he became one of the era's most important... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist by Randy Kennedy, The New York Times, July 5, 2011. Cy Twombly, whose spare, childlike scribbles and poetic engagement with antiquity left him stubbornly out of step with the movements of postwar American art even as he became one of the era's most important painters, died on Tuesday in Rome. He was 83. His death was announced by the Gagosian Gallery, which represents his work. Mr. Twombly had battled cancer for several years. In a career that slyly... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist by Randy Kennedy, The New York Times, July 5, 2011. Cy Twombly, whose spare, childlike scribbles and poetic engagement with antiquity left him stubbornly out of step with the movements of postwar American art even as he became one of the era's most important painters, died on Tuesday in Rome. He was 83. His death was announced by the Gagosian Gallery, which represents his work. Mr. Twombly had battled cancer for several years. In a career that slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a divisive artist almost from the start. The curator Kirk Varnedoe, on the... Read full biography
Following is the obituary of the artist by Randy Kennedy, The New York Times, July 5, 2011. Cy Twombly, whose spare, childlike scribbles and poetic engagement with antiquity left him stubbornly out of step with the movements of postwar American art even as he became one of the era's most important painters, died on Tuesday in Rome. He was 83. His death was announced by the Gagosian Gallery, which represents his work. Mr. Twombly had battled cancer for several years. In a career that slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a divisive artist almost from the start. The curator Kirk Varnedoe, on the occasion of a 1994 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, wrote that his work was "influential among artists, discomfitin... Read full biography
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