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Cy Twombly
Posted July 11th, 2011 by Manitou Galleries
Abstract artist Cy Twombly has died at age 83. Many publications have covered the news, most extensively the New York Times. Nonetheless, our favorite quote about his life comes from this article in the Bend Bulletin.
“In a career that slyly subverted abstract expressionism, toyed briefly with minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Twombly was a divisive artist almost from the start.”
“In the only written statement Twombly ever made about his work, a short essay in an Italian art journal in 1957, he tried to make clear that his intentions were not subversive but elementally human. Each line he made, he said, was ‘the actual experience’ of making the line, adding: ‘It does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization.’”
Photo: New York Times
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