CW Twombly
Born in 1928 in Lexington, Virginia Edwin Parker also known as “cw” was an American painter whose work focused on mainly large scale drawings. His technique is known as freely scribbled or graffiti like drawings in which he mostly worked onto mostly grey, tan or off white backgrounds and he is most known for his work in paintings, sculptures and calligraphy. Twombly’s education consisted of attending the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, he also attended the University of Washington, and was a part of the art student’s league of New York. Twombly’s work is often quoted by poets, in particular Stephane Mallarme. Twombly’s work also included classical myths and allegories in which he would quote either use quotes or phrases from them. During his later career it has been noticed that Twombly began to paint more romantic paintings, often used poems quotes rather than using classical myths and allegories. For my study point i have chosen to look at a particular piece called “Mars & The Artist”, it was painted using oil paint, wax crayon, collage and pencil on paper.
Mars & The Artist
This particular piece was done by using pencil,oil paint and wax crayon in a collage format and draw onto to paper. It clearly demonstrates one of CW Twombly’s many “freely scribbled” paintings and also shows the term of layers being used by the small layering of paper on top of each other. Although this wasn’t one of Twomblys most famous pieces, i think that it is the start of his drawings that show layers. Even though his work doesn’t intently show layers, i think that by looking at it closely you can see layers by just the small pieces of paper that are stacked on top of each other. Whilst i do enjoy all Twomblys pieces, this piece wouldn’t be one of my favourites. Normally i enjoy to read the poem quotes or stories that he scribbles across his work but in this piece i find it really hard to read what he has written, i had to google it and find out. This makes me feel less interested in this pieces, also i find that the drawing doesn’t represent anything to the artist. Normally Twomblys work has a certain link to his life, a family member or a memory, but after research i haven’t found that this work represents anything in particular. However I can’t just criticise this piece, i do enjoy the visual aspects of it. If i studied this piece, i would probably enlarged the scale of it and only focus on certain parts of it. The materials i would probably use to make this piece more textured would be, sand mixed with paint to create textured layers, use a fountain pen to recreate Twomblys writing but using my own words. Overall i find this piece interesting but not one of my favourites.
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