Born in Lexington, Virginia on April 25, 1928, Cy Twombly is best known for large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on mostly gray, tan, and off-white colors.
Twombly began taking private art lessons at the age of 12 from the Catalan artist Pierre Daura. After attending art schools and universities, he studied at the Art Students League of New York. There he met Robert Rauschenberg.
Rauschenberg encouraged him to attend Black Mountain College. There he met other artists who had influence in his work.
His first solo exhibition was held at the Samuel M. Kootz Gallery in New York City in 1951.
In 1957, Twombly moved to Rome and married Italian artist Baroness Tatiana Franchetti. They had a son, Cyrus Alessandro Twombly, a couple years later.
From 1955 to 1959, he worked along side Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Around that time, Twombly developed the technique of gestural drawing characterized by thin white lines on dark canvas, appearing as if the surface had scratches.
In the 1960s and 70s, Twombly would inscribe names of mythological figures in his paintings. In 1978, Twombly's Fifty Days at Ilium incorporated cryptic pictorial metaphors.
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Untitled (1957)
Leda and the Swan (1962)
Victory (1984)
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