Twombly's response to this stimulus was, however, anything but academic, as he expressed himself with a radical language of highly coloured stains and energetic brushwork. His success resulted from the combination of this exciting style with a subtle, original intellect, great self-belief and a measure of charm and good fortune. His father was a sports instructor and former baseball player whom Twombly admiringly described as still doing back flips at the age of he was known as "Cy" after the legendary pitcher "Cyclone" Young.
Twombly inherited his father's nickname, but not his athleticism. After completing his initial training in Boston, in Cy junior joined the Art Students League in New York, the epicentre of abstract expressionism. Soon afterwards this influence followed Twombly to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where his teachers included Robert Motherwell, although he was also inspired by the rector Charles Olson's interest in archetypal, symbolic imagery.
In such paintings as Min-Oe Twombly devised bold, symmetrical compositions, which, he suggested, were characteristic of both primitive and classical art. He also produced this effect in some of his sculptures, for example Untitled Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python , where a pair of solemn-looking palm leaves gives the work a consciously ritualistic tone. Twombly's yearning for antiquity led inevitably to the transatlantic trip that he made in with a scholarship from the Museum of Fine Arts at Richmond, Virginia.
With Robert Rauschenberg , whom he had met at the Art Students League, he travelled to Rome, the city in which he was to settle five years later, and, more surprisingly, Morocco. Although the journey to North Africa was Rauschenberg's idea, it profoundly affected Twombly: he brought back a sketchbook filled with motifs and studies of materials, and subsequently produced expressive abstract canvases whose titles were taken from the Moroccan towns Tiznit and Quarzazat.
Most remarkably, in reaction against the taboos about left and right that he encountered on his travels, Twombly began to draw "as if with his left hand". By literally denying himself dexterity, he reduced his control of the creative process in a way that was analogous to surrealist techniques — he took this even further during his military service as a cryptographer in by working at night, in the dark.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the joint exhibition that he held with Rauschenberg at New York's Stable Gallery in had some stormy reviews, with the Herald Tribune declaring that it was one of the two worst shows of the season.
Twombly remained undaunted: in certain pictures, such as Academy , the odd defiant expletive emerges from what are otherwise abstract patterns. With these moments of crudity, the works destroy the conventional distinction between writing and painting — a theme that became even more obvious after Twombly's move to Rome in He works on drawings from March until May in Rome.
Spends the summer in Sperlonga, working on drawings. He goes to a car rallye Rome, Paris and London; when he stops in Paris, he makes some drawings. Returns to Rome, continues working on drawings. In December he paints a cycle of paintings in nine parts, the Nine Discourses on Commodus in the Piazza del Biscione studio. Makes another trip to Greece during the spring months. In November he works in New York at a studio on 52 nd Street, where he makes a series of drawings.
The exhibition features drawings done in New York the previous year. Travels back to Rome by boat in the spring and starts to work on the grey paintings, the iconography of which becomes the theme of the work of the next several years. Galleria Notizie in Turin shows the first group of grey paintings completed in Rome the year before. Returns to Italy to spend the summer months in Castel Gardena. Twombly returns by boat to Italy on November 24th.
His recent works receive positive critical responses. From Los Angeles, Twombly travels to Mexico, visiting different archeological sites and staying in a small coast village, Yalapa, in the jungle along the Pacific coast. Martin, spending part of January and February in the village of Grand Case. Here he makes a series of drawings, the images of which he later develops into the paintings of the Bolsena series. The following summer he rents an apartment in Palazzo del Drago on Bolsena Lake, north of Rome, where he paints the fourteen large paintings of the Bolsena series.
He lives in Anacapri from June to July where he continues working on drawings. He visits Ireland in the summer, returning to Rome were he paints the second version of Treatise on the Veil in Via Monserrato. Twombly also has a show in Paris at Yvon Lambert that includes paintings and gouaches. He spends the summer in Anacapri at the Villa Orlando, working on drawings and collages. Twombly returns to New York in November and spends the rest of the year on Captiva Island making a series of lithographs for Untitled Press.
On his return to Rome in the spring, Twombly starts working on a very large canvas titled Anatomy of Melancholy in reference to the seventeenth-century book written by Robert Burton. He will finish this painting twenty-two years later in in Lexington, Virginia, and give it the new title Untitled Say Goodbay, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor.
He spends the summer in Capri and the winter on the Captiva Island, working on drawings. At the same time, the Kunstmuseum Basel organizes a comprehensive show of drawings of the previous twenty years. In the summer, in Castel Gardena, he completes the drawings titled 24 Short Pieces. He travels in November to northern and central India.
He has gallery exhibitions in Munich, Turin, Paris and Naples. Spends the winter months on Captiva Island. The artist purchases a fifteenth-century house in Bassano in Teverina, north of Rome, near Bomarzo, and starts its restoration, making it his summer studio for the following years. In March a representative group of paintings, drawings and sculptures, is shown at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
Upon his return to Rome, makes a trip to Tunisia in the spring. At the end of May, returns to Rome, working on two-large scale collages titled Mars and the Artist and Apollo and the Artist. He spends the summer months in Rome and Bassano in Teverina.
The artist begins to work on sculptures again. During the summer in Bassano in Teverina, the cycle of ten paintings Fifty Days at Iliam is completed. The exhibition is organized by Heiner Friedrich. Roland Barthes writes the introduction to the catalogue of the Whitney retrospective. He spends the months of December and January on the Caribbean islands of the Iles des Saintes and Antigua working on watercolors. An exhibition of paintings is held in Cologne at the Galerie Karsten Greve.
Gabriele Stocchi publishes a monograph on this series. Twombly works on a series of sculptures in July and August at his Bassano studio, then travels to Greece in September. Works on drawings and sculptures in a studio that he rents in late spring in Formia on the Gulf of Gaeta. In Bassano that summer he prepares for a show of works on paper that will take place the following year at Sperone Westwater Fischer Gallery in New York.
In September he starts work on Hero and Leandro, a painting in four parts. The first museum show of his sculptures, consisting of twenty-three works from to , opens at the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld. A catalogue is published with an essay by Marianne Stockebrand. He travels to the Greek island of Samos in September and returns to Rome where he paints the three large Bacchus works. Shows paintings and four new scultpures at Documenta 7 in Kassel from June to September. Returns to Rome via New York in late March.
Works in Gaeta during the spring. He concentrates on sculptures at the studio in Via Monserrato, Rome. During the winter in Key West, he completes a set of drawings called Proteus. He remains in Gaeta and continues to work on sculpture. In the summer months he works in Bassano on three-part painting Hero and Leander.
In Septemeber the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presents a large retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings.
Organized by Katharina Schmidt, it focuses on mythological themes in his work. In October a show of his sculptures opens in Rome at the Galleria Sperone. In the spring he stays in Gaeta, working on sculptures. In the summer Twombly works in Bassano, where he works on a second version of Hero and Leandro to Christopher Marlowe. The large series titled Analysis of the Rose as Sentimental Despair is also painted there. It is a five-part painting based on fragments of poems by Rilke, Rumi and Giacomo Leopardi.
The rest of the year is spent in Gaeta, using the house of a friend to work on sculptures. At the same time he purchases a house on a hillside, overlooking the harbour of Gaeta. He restores and expands the house and uses it as a studio in the following years. Twombly spends the spring and winter months in his new house in Gaeta.
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