Artist Models & Inspiration (CY TWOMBLY)
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/arts/cy-twombly-american-artist-is-dead-at-83.html American Artist Who Scribbled a Unique Path By RANDY KENNEDY JULY 5, 2011 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Email More Save Photo Cy Twombly with his painting "1994 Untitled (Say Goodbye Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor)," at the Menil Collection in Houston in 2005. Credit Michael Stravato for The New York Times Notes from the article: He avoided publicity throughout his life and mostly ignored his critics, who questioned constantly whether his work deserved a place at the forefront of 20th century abstraction, though he lived long enough to see it arrive there. It didn’t help that his paintings, because of their surface complexity and whirlwinds of tiny detail — scratches, erasures, drips, penciled fragments of Italian and classical verse amid scrawled phalluses and buttocks — lost much of their power in reprod...

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