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The largest in the series, this monumental painting features terse, colorless scrawls, reminiscent of chalk on a blackboard, that form no actual words. Twombly made this work using an unusual technique: he sat on the shoulders of a friend, who shuttled back and forth along the length of the canvas, thus allowing the artist to create his fluid ...
From the mid-1960s, Twombly began to paint series of gray-ground paintings, such as Cold Stream (1966), Untitled (1967), and Untitled (1970), which were stylistically minimalist and focused on the gesture of painting. These paintings, often called ‘blackboard paintings’ had repeating rows of white circular lines.
- American
- April 25, 1928
- Lexington, Virginia, United States
- July 5, 2011
Title: Untitled. Artist: Cy Twombly (American, Lexington, Virginia 1928–2011 Rome) Date: 1970. Medium: Oil and crayon on canvas. Dimensions: 61 3/8 × 75 in. (155.9 × 190.5 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Purchase, The Bernhill Fund Gift, 1984. Accession Number: 1984.70
In Untitled I, Twombly focuses on the physical process of mark-making, highlighting through exaggeration the rhythmic quality of the gesture. Despite mimicking script, the looped, linear forms convey neither information nor narrative, thus turning writing into an abstraction.
In 1966, Cy Twombly began a series of paintings, drawings, and collages that resembled chalkboards. To create the paintings in the series, including Untitled, he drew on wet gray paint with crayon, incising white, graffiti-like marks into the surface.
Untitled I (Green Paintings) These six works evoke a walk in the woods, or the whiteness of the Mediterranean Sea that was visible from Twombly’s studio in Gaeta, Italy.
This exhibition, on view from 6 May to 29 July 2001 at the National Gallery of Art (West Building), presents fifty-eight examples of Cy Twombly's sculpture, works that range in date from 1946 to the present.
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