Essay on art.

Artist Cy Twombly.
By Clayton Falzon.

 Cy Twombly is an artist that was born in USA in the year of 1928, Twombly got his name thanks to the New York art world in the early 1950’s. He was able to bring a distinctive approach to art, painting and sculpting that avoided contact with the predominant era’s in the 20^th century, like Abstract art, Expressionism, Pop art and Minimalism. Cy Twombly was mostly inspired by ancient Mediterranean previous activities (history and Geography), he also used to look up to Greek and Roman Mythologies and also poetry. His works reflect on his inspirations and also used to use grand scales art works.




                                                                                                         (CYCNUS, ROME, 1978 / WOOD, PALM LEAF, NAILS AND PAINT, 16 X 9 3/4 X 2 1/4 INCHES (40.6 X 247 X 5.7 CM).            

(QUATTRO STAGIONI: AUTUNNO, 1993-5. / ACRYLIC, OIL, CRAYON AND PENCIL ON CANVAS SUPPORT: 3136 X 2150 X 35 MM FRAME: 3230 X 2254 X 67 MM)

Cy Twombly is an artist that shows sensitivity and also sometimes luscious painting, His work shows personal details added in each work with a touch of history and cultures mostly in the Mediterranean. He is well know of using materials that are found in everyday life, You can find a lot of his work done in the Assemblage form of art, these artistic pieces of art show the nature of found materials and using them to create an artistic 3D or 2D artworks putting tighter found objects to create a composition. One of the most inspiring person to Twombly was a Spanish artist called by the name of Pierre Duara which he also used to attended some of this classes at the time of the 2^nd world war, Twombly attended his art classes to learn how to perform Modern European art. At the time he was only 14 years old. Twombly was graduated from Lexington high school and continued his art studies in the early 50’s Lee University in Washington, during the late 40’s Cy’s main interest was the German Expressionism. His departure to Europe was done in the year of 1952 which he was granted by the Richmond Fine arts museum for his first temporary stay in Europe and North Africa. He travelled to a lot of places but the main city that keep deep in his heart was Rome in Italy he also was truly inspired by the movements in that city.

Twombly with no doubt had made an effects on today’s artist mostly on European artist’s that are interested in Roman and Greek mythology. He also is well known and left us with his influences on how rich history is and can be interpreted such on the same note in art. His artworks also show the combining of European art with American influences. Twombly is a very inspiring artist to myself that keeping in mind were we came from and keeping the rich history that our world shares which is very important, Writers, historians and artist today could see Cy’s work as an inspiration and would lead to better outcomes by different artist in the future. 

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