In 'Duino', Cy Twombly has created a surface reminiscent of his renowned large 'blackboard' paintings of the same era: a dark, graphite-colored ground in oil-based housepaint is washed with gestural swathes of chalky pigment, as if bearing the traces of inscriptions written and removed.⠀ ⠀ The present work forms a concise tribute to the Duino Elegies, a cycle of intense, mystical poems concerned with beauty, suffering and salvation by Rainer Maria Rilke. Their ideas dovetail with Twombly's own i

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🔊 Hear Emma Baker, our Contemporary Specialist, delve into the explosive canvases of American master, Cy Twombly. In this episode of 'Expert Voices' Emma discusses how living in Rome inspired the artist to combine past, present and future in a style all his own.🎨 https://bit.ly/3gHFWQr | Sotheby's

American artist Cy Twombly wrote that the act of painting could come out of ‘one ecstatic impulse’. In this video, Ellen, Tate's Visitor Engagement Assistant, gives us her personal take on Twombly's spectacular canvases. Thanks for your response Ellen! ❤️ Discover Twombly's swirling throws of paint in a room dedicated to his work at Tate Modern. https://bit.ly/3mGN0Ud | Tate