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Ep. 67 - Cy Twombly's "Second Voyage to Italy (Second Version), 1962"
"My line does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization." - Cy Twombly Critics have described the work of consummate scribbler Cy Twombly as at once "barely there" and overly academic, but what about us art civilians? What is it about these half-baked scraps, scratch, and scrawl that speaks to our own creative impulses, our own inner children dying to grab the crayon and crush the tip in an ecstatic series of fat, juicy loopdeloops? See the images. Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"<...
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I've always had this relationship with Saito Longley. I feel like I can never fully get all the way there. You know, we're seeing gray scribbles, blue scribbles, white scribbles, red and peach tones scribbles as well. I keep saying the word scribbles but that's kind of what it
is. It has a lot of movement in color and so it's not just like a very stagnant piece. It has what I know because I just read what is like representing different pieces but before that it like even if it was nothing but literally just color on a gray background it's like scribbles that are like never really it looked like the artist was moving
very fast and very fluid and not necessarily like thinking too hard about exactly what he was putting down and more about just creating color and going with the movement of what he was feeling at the time. There's also a lot of mixed medium being used which kind of can add to the
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