Goodbye Lucian Freud

Hello, my blogging friends!

I've been back physically since late Wednesday morning but not quite back into my homebody routines! The heat wave in New England, combined with the hot and heavy breathing of my ancient Dell laptop Darth, have made for a slow transition back to blogging.

As far as our trip to Amsterdam, we had a great time but it always takes me a while to fully digest any transcontinental vacation I take to a place for the first time. I have a ton of photos. If you're interested and are not already on facebook, email me and I'll send you a link to the album there. pagansphinx@gmail.com. Otherwise, I will post a few choice photos in future posts. When it's not so hot and Darth is less lusty. ;-)

Love, love, love,

G

For now, I wanted to give you this link, about the passing away of one of my favorite painters of the 20th century, Lucian Freud and to re-post my Artist of the Week feature in this this post.

Lucian Freud

1922-2011

Goodbye Cy Twombly

Edwin Parker ("Cy" [after "Cyclone" Young]) Twombly, Jr. (April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011)

 Cy Twombley dead at age 83

" My line is childlike but not childish. It is very difficult to fake... to get that quality you need to project yourself into the child's line. It has to be felt. " 

Emerging from the New York art world of the early 1950s, Cy Twombly brought a distinctive approach to painting and sculpture that evaded precise affiliation with the predominant movements of the twentieth century, including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism. Inspired by ancient Mediterranean history and geography, Greek and Roman mythology, and epic poetry, Twombly created—sometimes on a grand scale, in multiple-panel works—a sometimes-inscrutable world of iconography, metaphor, and myth. The breadth of Twombly’s imagination and his interdisciplinary approach to subjects traverse vast distances, resulting in works that are at once baroque and spare, modern and ancient. The rest of this excellent article, Cy Twombly in Depth, here

Cy Twombly: A Retrospective

Works by Twombly at the Brandhorst modern art museum, Munich

 Lepanto

 untitled- (bolsena)

Sites to go to for various works of Cy Twombly


The Menil Collection, Houston Texas
Cy Twombly Gallery
Gagosian Gallery