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| A Cy Twombly painting at the Milwaukee Art Museum |
One of the artists I never really appreciated all that much till recently has just died at the age of 83 after a long battle with cancer. Cy Twombly, an American abstract painter, was famous for his large abstract pieces featuring graffiti style marks, repetitive lines and drawing techniques. In many of his pieces, he managed to create a surface that mimicked that of completely different materials; erased chalkboards, old weathered walls, sketch paper. And while his large pieces were abstract, they had a real grounded feeling. A "psuedo-material" quality lacking in many abstract artists work. His pieces felt built up, labored on, remade and created again. They felt like they had a history and a life of their own. They had a deliberate approach lost in some of pollock's work, and a childlike inconsistency that Rothko lacks...They have a primitive enthusiasm and energy while still keeping a sophistication, something few artists, I feel, can claim.
I can only hope that his art will continue gain recognition as it lives on, and that the painter himself claims his spot in the history of art greats.
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