I must confess that I really do not know anything about this painter, but I am ready to find out and I will advise if I like him or if he goes into the list of non-favourites where he will be in the company of Frida Kahlo, Joan Miró, Banksy, Keith Haring, Basquiat, Warhol et al, (why name them all).
Cy Twombly was a United States artist born in Lexington, Virginia in 1928. He died in 2011 in Rome, Italy. His style was to use big canvases and spread paint on them in a seemingly random manner. I am already not liking him. The fact that his works hang in the MoMA and in Le Louvre really puzzles me and makes me realise that we must make room in museums for good artists and remove the mediocre ones.
Twombly studied art and was influenced greatly by Robert Rauschenberg and many of the other US abstract expressionists… In the 1950’s in New York he worked with many other abstract expressionists and with Jasper Johns. I would say that with all these references, his art can be classified as simplified abstractions.
Twombly’s 1964 exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, composed of nine panels titled Discourses on Commodus, from 1963, was described by artist/critic Donald Judd with these words: «There is nothing to see in these paintings.»
And that is quite enough for me. I agree one hundred percent with Donald Judd. Twombly definitely is on the list of artists I truly and completely do not like. Now it is your turn to tell me what you think of this «art».
CHEERS
JaZzArt en València 
Making sense of his art requires a great deal of appreciation for empty spaces and gestural strokes of paint that look more like freely scribbled colours.
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I would love them if painted by a four year old child…
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🤣🤣🤣
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Pues a ver. Yo por lo que he visto ahí no podría opinar. 🤣🤣🤣feliz finde
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Gracias Azurea20, igual, feliz finde.
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Nope! Not for me either Francesc.
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I didn’t think so Malc. This is authentic rubbish! A four year old could do it and probably better!
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LOL
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Bueno, ya se sabe que en el mundo del Arte hay quienes utilizan la más manida de las técnicas: la de la tomadura de pelo.
Salud.
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Jeje… así es, amigo mío, de eso se trata y abunda. Si tienes padrino te bautizas y ya está. Cuando la CIA quiso un equivalente al rayonismo y al constructivismo «hicieron» a Jackson Pollock, el pintor cowboy norteamericano, se lo pusieron en bandeja a Peggy Guggenheim y nació el «action painting», o el expresionismo abstracto, el equivalente estadounidense a las vanguardias europeas y soviéticas. De ahi nacieron personajes como Cy Twombly…
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I’m honestly not sure what to make of this. «Artist» might not be the term I would use here. It seems more like a haphazard scribble rather than something that was thoughtfully created. My own boys drew similar things when they were younger—probably even better. Maybe I should dig those out and submit them to an art museum! Nonetheless, we shouldn’t judge the artist too quickly; they may have a unique vision, and understanding the story behind the work might offer a different perspective.
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My friend that is exactly what I thought! But no, we do not need to understand the underlying story because art/painting has to stand on its own visually without any explanation. I would say he was an artist but a bad one, a very bad one who had us on as well as the art world. Only because of who he knew and associated with do his «paintings» hang in MoMA and Louvre. Cheers my friend and all the best.
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👍🏻🤗
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I think he’s trying to prove that people will buy anything when it’s called ‘Art’.
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Exactly. The art of having us on!
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