Cy Twombly Photographs: Lyrical Variations

Exhibition catalogue for “Cy Twombly Photographs: Lyrical Variations“, held at The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art. Cy Twombly (1928-2011, born in Virginia, USA) is an artist of the next generation that followed the prominent artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement, like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, and he would leave his name in the annals of art history of the 20th century with a unique style of painting and drawing that has been likened to the scribbling of a child. Twombly studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and New York’s Art Students League, and his talent as an artist was recognized in those student years by such artists as Robert Motherwell. From the 1960s, his work would come into the spotlight with successful one-man exhibitions and later with large retrospective exhibitions at prominent New York galleries and museums in Europe. However, it wasn’t until the 1990s that his works in photography first began to be exhibited. Twombly had first begun working in p