Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr. (pron.: /saɪ ˈtwɒmbli/; April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011[1][2]) was an American artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. He exhibited his paintings worldwide.Twombly used the nickname "Cy", after his father (also nicknamed Cy, who was briefly a pitcher in Major League Baseball) and the star baseball pitcher Cy Young.[3] Twombly's paintings blur the line between drawing and painting. Many of his best-known paintings of the late 1960s are reminiscent of a school blackboard on which someone has practiced cursive "e"s. Twombly had at this point discarded painting figurative, representational subject-matter, citing the line or smudge – each mark with its own history – as its proper subject.

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly