By Nicola Del Roscio

Famous as one of many maximum and so much idiosyncratic artists of the postwar period, Cy Twombly left at the back of an oeuvre of wonderful versatility, sensitivity and originality upon his dying in 2011 at age eighty three. operating within the speedy aftermath of summary Expressionism, Twombly built an intensely own scription such as scrawled letters and phrases, in an effusive, calligraphic mark-making that means a type of painted poetry. operating throughout portray, drawing, sculpture and images with a stressed power, Twombly included the gods of historical Greece, the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the historical past, tradition and mythology of the Occident into his paintings. The crucial Cy Twombly, edited by means of Twombly's longtime collaborator Nicola Del Roscio, is the last word review of his paintings, featuring crucial work and cycles of work, drawings, sculptures and images from Twombly's varied oeuvre. the main obtainable survey of his paintings to this point, this quantity contains essays through Laszlo Glozer, Thierry Greub, Kirk Varnedoe and Simon Schama.
Edwin Parker (Cy) Twombly (1928-2011) used to be born in Lexington, Virginia. He lived and labored in long island within the early Nineteen Fifties (where he met Robert Rauschenberg, with whom he was once to have an extended own and inventive courting) and studied on the mythical Black Mountain university in North Carolina prior to touring round North Africa, Spain and Italy and eventually settling in Rome earlier than the tip of the last decade, simply because the paintings global was once transferring its heart of gravity to manhattan. most sensible identified for his work and drawings, frequently done on a huge scale throughout a number of canvases, Twombly additionally made sculptures and pictures.