Cy Twombly
Also known as Edwin Parker Twombly, Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr., Edwin Parker, Jr. Twombly, Edwin Parker Twobly, Edwin Parker Twombly Jnr
American painter, sculptor and photographer (1928–2011)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1928
- Works
- 75
Top works
- Cy Twombly
- Cy Twombly, Bilder, Arbeiten auf Papier, Skulpturen
- Cy Twombly Gallery
- Fifty days at Iliam
- Cy Twombly, poems to the sea (1959)
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1928
- Active to
- 2011
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 15
- Total plays
- 19
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Article
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (/ˈsaɪ ˈtwɒmbli/; April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor, and photographer.
Twombly influenced artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His best-known works are typically large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. His later paintings and works on paper shifted toward "romantic symbolism", and their titles can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words. Twombly often quoted poets such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Maria Rilke, and John Keats, as well as classical myths and allegories, in his works. Examples of this are his Apollo and The Artist and a series of eight drawings consisting solely of inscriptions of the word "Virgil".