Cy Twombly
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large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings Art Work
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Cy Twombly |
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Male |
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American |
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April 25, 1928 |
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Quick Facts
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large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings |
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Calligraphy
Painting
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Biography
| Twombly studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. From 1950 to 1951, he studied at the Art Students League of New York, where he met Robert Rauschenberg, who encouraged him to attend Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina. At Black Mountain in 1951 and 1952 he studied with Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and Ben Shahn, and met John Cage. Twombly is well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. |
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