July 5th, 2011 / 5:07 pm
 Massive People

Cy Twombly [1928-2011]


RIP

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13 Comments

  1. July 5th, 2011 / 9:37 pm Jeff—

      Ah, shit. He was a great one. I’ve never seen more people angry at art than at his MoMA retrospective in the mid 90s. Many of them absolutely frothing about how this wasn’t art, a total sham, etc. Then there were a few serene souls hovering by the work, clearly knocked sideways and blissed out.

  2. July 5th, 2011 / 10:00 pm Matthew Simmons—
  3. July 5th, 2011 / 10:05 pm Matthew Simmons—

      NS: It was unusual that you were working in both painting
      and sculpture at that time, because people normally think of themselves
      as either painters or sculptors.

      CT: I didn’t think of myself as except what I was doing.
       

  4. July 6th, 2011 / 1:42 am pizza—

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      “If the world is absurd, if what passes for reality is distressingly unreal, why spend time representing it?”

  5. July 6th, 2011 / 8:17 am Jimkleinhenz—

      Should you have doubts about his work, sit down with a pencil and paper and try an do a Twombly. not so easy, huh?

  6. July 6th, 2011 / 1:04 pm Anonymous—

      a fire that consumes all before it still rips my guts out. sad news.

  7. July 6th, 2011 / 1:04 pm Anonymous—

      a fire that consumes all before it still rips my guts out. sad news.

  8. July 6th, 2011 / 1:18 pm Guestagain—

      …and an eraser, he drew with an eraser as well

  9. July 6th, 2011 / 3:58 pm Anonymous—

      for those who love the gesture of art he is a great liberator.

  10. July 7th, 2011 / 6:07 am Rich Baiocco—

      hey a friend of mine sent me his essay he presented at a recent Black Mountain College conference on the artistic relationship between Twombly and the poet Charles Olson in the early ’50s.  If anyone’s interested in that sort of thing click on this link to read it.  Images are worth it alone.

      http://shwardo.tumblr.com/post/7328851548/cytwombly

      RIP Cy 

  11. July 7th, 2011 / 7:16 pm pizza—

      lol

  12. July 14th, 2011 / 9:51 pm Bridgewindsoup—

      yes! the eraser was super important.

  13. July 14th, 2011 / 9:56 pm Bridgewindsoup—

      Thanks for posting Blake, had no idea. When I was in NYC last weekend, I hugged a nice girl in front of a Cy Twombly painting at the Met. It made us really happy and we hugged, true story.

      ps. half way through “EVER” – incredible.