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Cy Twombly at Cy Twombly Gallery in Houston in front of the gallery’s largest painting, “Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor.”

Twombly’s work is breathtaking in person.  I actually had the pleasure of viewing it at the Pre-Opening at The Modern Wing this May.  It was an unbelievable experience because while we were in his exhibit Cy Twombly was directing The Art Institute on the placement of some of his sculptures.  Born in the 1920’s, he didn’t seem a day over 65.  It was so special to be in the same room as the artist himself and brought a sense of humanity to his poetic peonies.

Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000–2007

“The distinctive practice of Cy Twombly merges drawing, painting, writing, and symbolic gesture in the pursuit of a direct, intuitive form of expression. His inimitable visual language of scrawls, drips, and denotations is tensely balanced between abstract and pictorial impulses. The more than 30 works in the Modern Wing’s Abbott Galleries inaugural exhibition speak from the artist’s enduring concern with the natural world—specifically seascape, landscape, light, and flora—themes that have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Equal parts commanding and muscular, tentative and languorous, the new work testifies to the ongoing creative vitality of one of the greatest American artists of our time. ”

-The Art Institute of Chicago

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