The Italians

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The Italians

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Cy Twombly
In a work such as The Italians (1961), Twombly made seemingly random and scrawled marks with oil paint, pencil, and crayon as if pursuing a kind of abstract and gestural handwriting in a stream of consciousness. Closer examination, though, reveals this artist’s wide range of choices and emphases, with alternating…
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In a work such as The Italians (1961), Twombly made seemingly random and scrawled marks with oil paint, pencil, and crayon as if pursuing a kind of abstract and gestural handwriting in a stream of consciousness. Closer examination, though, reveals this artist’s wide range of choices and emphases, with alternating…
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