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Copyright the artist | | | Twombly, Cy (1928 - 2011) USA
Untitled, 1957
Oil, house paint, coloured crayon and paper mounted on canvas; 68.8 x 98.5 cm Abstract Expressionism
UID 102-581
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Biography
American painter, sculptor and designer. Between 1948 and 1951, he studied at the Washington and Lee University in Lexington, at the Museum School in Boston and at the Art Students League in New York. In 1951-52, he did a semester at Black Mountain College, where he attended courses taught by Kline and Motherwell. This period marked the start of his involvement with Abstract Expressionism. In the mid 50s, he began working with chalk and pencil and his paintings took on a more graphic character. The stylistic changes in his painting were registered more or less during his prolific production of drawings and prints, generally executed in series and grouped in cycles.
In 1957 Twombly returned to Italy to live. References to antiquity, ancient history, classical mythology, Renaissance painting and poetry became increasingly prominent in his paintings. In the first half of the 60s, he mainly used subjective and erotic signs in which intense and dense colours predominated. In the mid 70s, he evoked landscape through colour, inscription and glued elements. After 1976, he again produced some sculpture, lightly painted white and suggestive of classical forms. In 1977 and 1982, he took part in Documenta 6 and 7 in Kassel. He had some important retrospectives, in 1988 at the George Pompidou Centre in Paris and, in 1994, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Exhibitions
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
A Look at The Berardo Collection Museu de José Malhoa, Portugal 23-07-2001 ~ 26-10-2001
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
A Look at The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 18-06-2000 ~ 30-09-2000
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
A Look at The Berardo Collection, 2000 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742839
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