lowtide HIGHTIDE

Ben gave me my Christmas gift today, it took awhile coming from overseas-- Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper, 3rd Edition.  I sent him an email about 2 months ago expressing my love for this man and this book and, my love, took note and got it!  What a man...xoxo   

 


Love this:   
"Kirk Varnedoe thought it necessary to defend Twombly's seemingly random marks and splashes of paint against the criticism that "This is just scribbles - my kid could do it".'One could say that any child could make a drawing like Twombly only in the sense that any fool with a hammer could fragment sculptures as Rodin did, or any house painter could spatter paint as well as Pollack. In none of these cases would it be true. In each case the art lies not so much in the finesse of the individual mark, but in the orchestration of a previously uncodified set of personal "rules" about where to act and where not, how far to go and when to stop, in such a way as the cumulative courtship of seeming chaos defines an original, hybrid kind of order, which in turn illuminates a complex sense of human experience not voiced or left marginal in previous art.'  "