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Artist
Cy Twombly
1928–2011 · American · Based in Rome and Gaeta, Italy; Lexington, Virginia (d. 2011)
- Black Mountain College
- Art Students League of New York
- Washington and Lee University
- School of the Museum of Fine Arts
- Darlington School
- Aiglon College
- Calligraphic Graffiti Painting
- Wax Crayon & Oil
- Plaster & Bronze Sculpture
Cy Twombly developed a distinctive language of scribbles, names, numbers, smears and erasures that drew heavily on classical myth, poetry and Mediterranean history. From the late 1950s he lived largely in Italy.
Painting; drawing; sculpture; photography
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
Cy Twombly at Tate Modern | TateShots
Major Works
- Panorama
- Academy
- Ferragosto series
- The Italians
- Virgil
- Leda and the Swan
- Fifty Days at Iliam
- Bacchus series
- Lepanto
- Quattro Stagioni
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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