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Google WW2, the Berlin Wall, Crystal Pepsi, Walmart, Donald Trump and then you may understand why Warhol reflects the contemporary zeitgeist and academic neocla
by noema 5y ago
Google WW2, the Berlin Wall, Crystal Pepsi, Walmart, Donald Trump and then you may understand why Warhol reflects the contemporary zeitgeist and academic neoclassical art does not. (By the way, Twombly is totally unlike those other two artists. There is in fact a subtle classicism to his work.)
- boppo1 5y ago> There is in fact a subtle classicism to his work. Please enlighten me. The man made literal scribbles: https://youtu.be/X-nJNcE4uKs https://youtu.be/X-nJNcE4uKs Anyone with functioning eyes ought to watch that and be able to immediately see that the "expert" is not wearing any clothing. They've got classical violin music playing to add a sense of prestige, it's grotesque. It would be more appropriate to accompany the video with "zen music"[0], the musical analog to twombly's work: https://youtu.be/uOOtJcWAk-A https://youtu.be/uOOtJcWAk-A [0]: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13248549
- noema 5y agoHis work is often read as an archaic, pre-verbal poetics of the classical world: https://www.bastian-gallery.com/ausstellungen/cy-twombly-a-mediterranean-world/ https://www.bastian-gallery.com/ausstellungen/cy-twombly-a-m... The scribblings draw from the walls of Pompeii, soft whites and blood reds evoke a certain Greco-Roman pallette etc. Scribbles but more than scribbles. He was actually criticized for not adhering to postmodernist scripture: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/10/cy-twombly-humanist-upbringing https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/10... See also: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691170725/reading-cy-twombly https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691170725/re...