i've been amazed by the work of Cy Twombly for years... the leap of imagination required to make these paintings and then the decades of development and movement he brought to this ouvre. MOMA has just aquired five of his paintings. His work has been under-represented in America for many years. the piece above, "Tiznit" is from 1953 and is Dutch Boy house paint pencil and crayon. Let's try a personal vision in reductive terms, perhaps monochromatic....this painting was homage to tribal objects Mr. Twombly saw at the ethnographic museum in Rome. This is akin to Picasso and Matisses's use of African masks 4 decades earlier...it also shows his obligation to Paul Klee's iconic renditions of figures and ground fom the thirties and forties...in art nothing exists in a vacuum, but the graphic surprise that occurs when visions appear out of the box of convention can belie their heritage. see you next week, john.
Friday, March 11, 2011
John murray classes week of March 14, 2011
i've been amazed by the work of Cy Twombly for years... the leap of imagination required to make these paintings and then the decades of development and movement he brought to this ouvre. MOMA has just aquired five of his paintings. His work has been under-represented in America for many years. the piece above, "Tiznit" is from 1953 and is Dutch Boy house paint pencil and crayon. Let's try a personal vision in reductive terms, perhaps monochromatic....this painting was homage to tribal objects Mr. Twombly saw at the ethnographic museum in Rome. This is akin to Picasso and Matisses's use of African masks 4 decades earlier...it also shows his obligation to Paul Klee's iconic renditions of figures and ground fom the thirties and forties...in art nothing exists in a vacuum, but the graphic surprise that occurs when visions appear out of the box of convention can belie their heritage. see you next week, john.
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