Cy Twombly Archive
Empire of Flora from 1961 by Cy Twombly.
Twombly is quoted in the wall text of the exhibit: “I Would have liked to have been Poussin, if i’d had a choice, in another time”. He said this pretty late in his long and fruitful career: 2008 – just two years before he passed. He developed a real work relationship with this Classical Baroque artist. Themes of metamorphosis, heroism, and allegory prevail in both artist’s work. Also something in the way he creates shapes through chiaroscuro, and movement through line really reminds me of Poussin’s prints and paintings. To me, the “abstract” art of Cy Twombly looks less and less abstract, but rather like a novel, it can be read to accrue meaning.