Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly – his real name is Edwin Parker(CY) Twombly Jr.- (born 1928)- is a wellknown american painter. He is doing his paintings in a calligraphic style, many of them are graffiti paintings with mostly grey background. He has his exhibitions worldwide. In his work he crosses the lines between drawing and painting. For example in some of his best known paintings from the late 1950s to early 1960s he practiced cursive “e”s on a school blackboard. Twombly also did many paintings with classical myths and allegories as background, for example his painting “Apollo and The Artist”. He did his studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), later at Washingtonand Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. In 1950 to 1951 he studied at the Art Students League of New York and met Robert Rauschenberg. He had his first solo exhibition at the Kootz Gallery in New York. His paintings during these years were influenced by Kline and Paul Klee. In 1952 he travelled to Spain, France, Italy and North Africa. In 2008 Twombly had an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, his first solo retrospective in 15 years. This high talented artist is aged 81 years, he lives in Lexington, Virginia and Italy where he still is active.