Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly was born in Lexington, Virginia, United States on April 25th, 1928 and is the Painter. At the age of 83, Cy Twombly biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor, and photographer.
He belonged to Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns' generation. Twombly's paintings are mainly large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic, and graffiti-like works on solid fields of predominantly grey, tan, or off-white colors.
His later paintings and drawings on paper shifted toward "romantic symbolism," and their titles could be read more literally through shapes and words.
Authors such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Maria Rilke, and John Keats, as well as classical myths and allegories in his works, are cited liberally in his books.
He Apollo and The Artist, as well as a number of eight drawings based solely on inscriptions of the word "VIRGIL" are among the examples. Twombly is said to have inspired younger artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, and Julian Schnabel.
His works are on view in permanent collections of modern art museums around the world, including the Menil Collection in Houston, the Tate Modern in London, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In a 1994 retrospective, curator Kirk Varnedoe characterized Twombly's work as "influential among artists," disdiscriminating to many commentators and launching postwar art in its entirety.
Life and career
On April 25, 1928, Twombly was born in Lexington, Virginia. The Chicago White Sox's father, also known as "Cy," pitched for the Chicago White Sox. They were both named after Cy Young, a baseball legend who appeared for, among other things, the Cardinals, Red Sox, Indians, and Braves.
Twombly began private art lessons with Catalan modern master Pierre Daura at the age of 12. Twombly attended Darlington School in Rome, Georgia, and the School of Fine Arts, Boston (1948–49), and in Lexington, Virginia, 1945–50). He studied at the Art Students League of New York, where he met Robert Rauschenberg while on a tuition scholarship from 1950 to 1951. Rauschenberg invited him to Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina, to be a part of the Asheville, North Carolina, at the University of Asheville, North Carolina. He worked at Black Mountain in 1951 and 1952, worked with Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Ben Shahn, and John Cage. Charles Olson, the College's poet and rector, had a major influence on him.
Motherwell curated Twombly's first solo exhibition, which was sponsored by the Samuel M. Kootz Gallery in New York in 1951. Kline's black-and-white gestural expressionism, as well as Paul Klee's images, influenced his work at this time. Twombly received a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 1952, allowing him to travel to North Africa, Spain, Italy, and France. Robert Rauschenberg and he spent this journey in Africa and Europe. He spent 1954-1964 in Washington, D.C., as a cryptographer, and he would often fly to New York for brief periods of leave. He taught at the Southern Seminary and Junior College in Buena Vista, Virginia, now known as Southern Virginia University, from 1955 to 1956; during the summer, Twombly would travel to New York to paint in his Williams Street apartment.
In 1957, Twombly moved to Rome and made it his principal city, where he encountered Tatiana Franchetti, his patron Baron Giorgio Franchetti's sister. They married at New York City Hall in 1959 and later bought a palazzo on the Via di Monserrato in Rome. In addition, they had a 17th-century villa in Bassano, north of Rome, and south of Rome. They have a son, Cyrus Alessandro Twombly (born 1959), who is also a painter and lives in Rome.
Nicola Del Roscio of Gaeta, his longtime companion, was born in 1964. In the early 1990s, twombly bought a house and rented a studio in Gaeta. Twombly and Tatiana, who died in 2010, never divorced and remained close friends.
After being plagued by cancer for many years, Twombly died in Rome after a brief hospitalization in July 2011. He is commemorated on a plaque in Santa Maria, Vallicella.