Awareness 8: Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly lived in Rome but was born in Lexington VA. He used Italian history and postwar issues and graffiti as inspiration for his works. In his later works, some below, he focuses on the process of writing rather than the graffiti he sees around him. His art really reminds me of what I want to incorporate into my sculpture project with graffiti and drips and layers. While I do not really like his drawings where he writes Greek god names on a huge piece of paper, I like the immensity and scale of his projects. It’s the same as I’ve been trying to achieve with my home project, but on a slightly smaller piece of paper and with sculpture. Twombly’s use of color and contrast and repetition create movement and evoke emotion in the viewer, possibly that of forgetting and rebuilding that postwar society felt. The first time I saw act Twombly’s work, I was not immediately captured by it, and I even thought that it wasn't good, but after checking out a library book with his later paintings, I saw more value in his work.