February 29, 2012
Thu 07 Jul 2011

Cy Twombly, known for signature scrawl, dies at 83

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Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection.

  • He was 83. Represented in major museum collections throughout the world, Mr. Twombly's work stands out in the Donald and Doris Fisher Collection, of which the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art became custodian in late
  • It also evoked graffiti as a creative provocation to modernists from Pablo Picasso and the Surrealists to photographers such as Brassai and Aaron Siskind
  • Twombly's signature style actually does bring handwriting to the minds of critics and unprepared viewers alike
  • Sympathetic critics early recognized in Mr. Twombly's work a performative fusion of drawing and painting


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