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Cy Twombly
Sign in to saveAlso known as Edwin Parker Twombly, Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr., Edwin Parker, Jr. Twombly, Edwin Parker Twobly, Edwin Parker Twombly Jnr
American painter, sculptor and photographer (1928–2011)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1928
- Works
- 75
Top works
- Cy Twombly
- Cy Twombly, Bilder, Arbeiten auf Papier, Skulpturen
- Cy Twombly Gallery
- Fifty days at Iliam
- Cy Twombly, poems to the sea (1959)
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1928-04-25
- Active to
- 2011-07-05
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 15
- Total plays
- 19
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4·4 million participants
· 2016 · cited 2,854x
- Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
· 2008 · cited 1,298x
- <i>ATSAS 3.0</i>: expanded functionality and new tools for small-angle scattering data analysis
· 2021 · cited 1,035x
- Prognostic discrimination in "good-risk" chronic granulocytic leukemia
· 1984 · cited 904x
- Highly quaternized polystyrene ionomers for high performance anion exchange membrane water electrolysers
· 2020 · cited 763x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release.By crisis by no means limited to a morbid state, but could just as easily be an ecstatic impulse.”
- “I'm drawn to the primitive, the ritual and fetish elements.”
- “For myself the past is the source (for all art is vitally contemporary).”
- “In painting it is the forming of the image.”
- “Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate — it is the sensation of its own realization. [a written art note by Twombly on a painting he created in 1957].”
- “I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Edwin Parker Twombly Jr. , ( 1928-04-25 ) April 25, 1928, Lexington, Virginia , U.S.
- Died
- July 5, 2011 (2011-07-05) (aged 83), Rome , Italy
- Education
- School of the Museum of Fine Arts Washington and Lee University Art Students League Black Mountain College
- Known for
- Painting, sculpture, calligraphy
- Spouse
- Tatiana Franchetti ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1959 ; died 2010 )
- Partner
- Nicola Del Roscio (1964–2011)
- Awards
- Praemium Imperiale , Legion of Honor
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (/ˈsaɪ ˈtwɒmbli/; April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor, and photographer.
Twombly influenced artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His best-known works are typically large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. His later paintings and works on paper shifted toward "romantic symbolism", and their titles can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words. Twombly often quoted poets such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Maria Rilke, and John Keats, as well as classical myths and allegories, in his works. Examples of this are his Apollo and The Artist and a series of eight drawings consisting solely of inscriptions of the word "Virgil".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cy Twombly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.