big deal?” or comment, “My six year-old could do that.” Although normally I enjoy abstract, experimental art – being such a painter myself – I do not believe Cy Twombly to be a “worthy” artist. Make no mistake: what Twombly creates is, without a doubt, legitimate art. In fact, I do like and appreciate some of it. However, I don’t believe Twombly deserves to be the multi-millionaire and household name that he has become…regardless of the challenging circumstances he faced throughout his early career
career filled with impressive statistics that may rarely be duplicated. His career extends from the early 1980’s into the new millennium, and continues today. During this stretch, nicknamed “The Rocket”, he won more Cy Young awards, seven, than any other pitcher in MLB history. The Cy Young award is given annually to the League’s best pitcher. In 2003 he won the 300th game of his career. He is only one of four MLB pitchers in all time to pass the 4,000 strikeout mark. Roger Clemens started his
California Angles (American League), then Houston Astros (National League), and ended his career with the Texas Rangers (American League). Greg Maddux has received four Cy Young Awards in his thirteen-year career. The Cy Young Award is the award that is given to the best pitcher for the year. Nolan Ryan never received a single Cy Young Award. This is an especially hard accomplishment now. The recent years in baseball have been the biggest offensive years that the sport has ever seen. There has been
defined by a cohesive, binding style; instead, they shared an interest in using abstraction to convey strong emotional or expressive content. Much of their work was non-representational and was more focused on the usage of color, technique and form. Cy Twombly, an American artist whose work emerged in 1950s Europe, was one such abstractionist. Many of his works were reflections on, responses to, and re-workings of the ancient Greco-Roman histories that surrounded him. In 1962, he created a cycle of paintings
Piano, through his use of intellectual problem solving and finesse also has a clear understanding of how to use light in his spaces. For example: Piano thoughtfully used natural diffused natural light in both the Menil Collection as well as the Cy Twombly. Piano’s objectives In the Menil project were to create a building to hold the art collection, have the building be fully integrated and not interrupt the environment of the existing neighborhood, as well as create a space dependent on natural
Josef Albers was a German artist whose art laid the foundation of one of the most influential styles of the 20th century. Albers’s roots lead back to a town named Bottrop in Westphalia, Germany. From the time of 1908 to 1913, Albers worked as an educator in his town. In 1918, Albers got his premier public commission, Rosa mystica ora pro nobis, which was a stained-glass window for a local place of worship. He studied art in many major German cities before becoming a student at the prestigious Weimar
Nicole Zajac General Art 8 Wednesday 9, 2016 Jean Michel Basquiat, born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, NY, was one of the world’s famous neo-expressionists in the world. He is the only African American paper to have attained a mystic “superstar” position. This previous graffiti artist whose work is inextricable from the scenery of NYC streets and alleys infiltrated the world’s famous arts with a quite rapid motion. His work captivated the attention of famous art dealers including Mary Boone
works there is a strong sense of primitivism, borrowing from an almost ancient tribal style. Basquiat seemed to have taken bits and pieces of styles from his favorite artists throughout history. Many artists Influenced Jean Michel Basquiat, from Cy Twombly to Pablo Picasso. The artist that had the most influence not just on Jean Michel’s art but his life was Andy Warhol. As a high-powered art figure Andy Warhol played a key role in Jean Michel Basquiat’s success; from the time that they met to the
Collection reaffirms the collection's central role in the Whitney Museum experience. This reflects the Whitney’s desire to remain as an authority on Contemporary American Art by devoting the remaining floors to changing shows, such as the recent Cy Twombly exhibition (Figure 2) and Tim Hawkinson’s first major in depth museum retrospective. The Whitney Biennial held its first show in 1932, by the 1960’s the biennial is quoted by Therese Schwartz in Nirvana Takes a Holiday as, “…the heaven on earth
“The true test of the greatness of a work of art is its ability to be understood by the masses.” The statement "The true test of the greatness of a work of art is its ability to be understood by the masses;" is highly problematic. Art in itself has an ambiguous definition that combines concepts of aesthetics and personal emotion. When one thinks of art, it becomes clear that the definition of art is too abstract. Art can be anything from cavepaintings to heiroglypics and pottery. Does this
Rebel Poets of 1950s "America demands a poetry that is bold, modern and all-surrounding and kosmical, as she is herself." Although Walt Whitman wrote that prescription shortly after the Civil War, it also vividly describes the generation of American poets who came of age after World War II. Particularly during moments of cultural change, poets have joined artists on the front lines of expanding consciousness by forging a vernacular language that gives expression to contemporary life. One such