CY TWOMBLY
Cy Twombly was born in 1928 in Lexington, Virginia. Between 1948 and 1951 he attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Washington and Lee University in Lexington, and the Art Students League in New York, where he met Robert Rauschenberg. At the latter's suggestion, in 1951-52 he began studying at Black Mountain College, near Asheville, North Carolina, with teachers such as Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and Ben Shahn. Also in 1951, the Kootz Gallery in New York exhibited his first solo exhibition. In those years Twombly's work was influenced by the black and white Expressionism of Kline and the playful imagery of Paul Klee. In 1952 a scholarship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts enabled him to travel to North Africa, Spain, France and Italy. On his return in 1953, he joined the Army as a cryptographer. Between 1955 and 1959 he worked in New York and Italy, where he finally settled, choosing the city of Rome. In those years he began his first abstract sculptures, which he painted, regardless of material or form, in white.
SENZA TITOLO, 1973
lithography offset
cm 75,5x54,5
150 es.
