ART & Thoughts
“ Art is a form of consciousness.” Susan Sontag
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Cy Twombly : American Artist
In a career that slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop Art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a divisive artist almost from the start. The curator Kirk Varnedoe, on the occasion of a 1994 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, wrote that … Continue reading
Jackson Pollock: Abstract Expressionist
“On the floor I am more at ease,” he once wrote. “I feel nearer, more part of the painting since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.” During his lifetime Pollock was famously photographed creating these seminal works, known as drip or action paintings. … Continue reading
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