Cy Twombly (American, 1929 - )

Apparently random, scribbles and scratchings, is the characteristic style of American abstract painter, Cy Twombly. He attended school at the Boston Museum school, The Art Students’ League in New York, and the Black Mountain College where he studied under Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell. Six years after his first solo exhibition in 1951, Twombly moved to Rome. There he continued creating his abstract canvases called, “writings,” further refining his loosely graphic, graffitied abstractions. It was at this time that he developed an, “all-over style,” of painting, completely abandoning the idea that a canvas had a center or boarders.