PAST EXHIBITION
Cy Twombly: Blooming: A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things
November 8, 2007—December 22, 2007
Twombly conceived these vast and exuberant panel paintings with the décor and balanced order of the typical eighteenth century
hôtel particulier
in mind. This most recent group of paintings are of a large horizontal
format, each comprising six wooden panels. Across their broad surfaces,
ideogrammatic blossoms of vivid crayon and viscous pigment, and haikus
pencilled in the artist's tremulous scrawl, combine and contrast with
drips and efflorescent flows of startling, sometimes offbeat, mannerist
color – burgundy, damask yellow, vermilion, rose, and mint green. Each
of these so-called "peony" paintings is a daring invention, combining
influences as diverse as French Enlightenment art, furnishings, and
architecture, Japonisme, and the
élan vital of Twombly's own original Abstract Expressionism.
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