“The work is hard to grasp and impossible to understand. But if you are lucky enough to be in a room filled with Twombly's and they grab hold of you, well then you are very fortunate indeed.”
Cy's work clicked with me because he used pencil and mark making on a large scale he worked on paper and he used text. I knew paint was not my medium and I dared to break from this tradition, a art teacher of mine suggested I looked at the work of Cy Twombly and I can say I was blown away that someone had dared to work like this already. It was an epiphany and I studied him intensely and as a result I entered art school with a portfolio of pencil drawings - large scale sketches incorporating quotes and streams of consciousness, collectively creating a rhythmical composition that could be consumed as a whole or zoomed in to be absorbed into the minutiae. Not pastiches of Cy's work ,that could not happen, but mine.
As many people are scathing of his work as are enraptured. It was love at first sight for me and made a connection that has stayed with me for a long time and always will.
Thank you Cy - you are my one true inspiration and always will be. See you in heaven xxx
p.s My favourite piece of work?
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Aristaeus Mourning the Loss of his Bees (1973) |
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| Wilder shores of Love |
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| The Second Part of the Return from Parnassus, 1961 |
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| Hero and Leander |
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| Herodiade |
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| Apollo and the Artist I could go on and on ...... |
