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Title
School
of
Athens
.
Creator
Twombly, Cy (American painter, draftsman, printmaker, and sculptor, born 1928)
Date
1961
Cultural Context
American
North American
Style/Period
Modern (styles and periods)
Abstract (fine arts style)
Contemporary
Theme
Paintings (visual works)
Oil paintings (visual works)
Drawings (visual works)
Abstraction
Mixed media
Allusion
Graffiti
Subject
Paintings
Oil paintings
Abstract paintings
Abstract works
Abstract drawings
Drawings
Pencil works
Crayon drawings
Mixed media
Allusions
Graffiti
Description
Oil
,
house
paint
,
crayon
, and
pencil
on
canvas
. "The
classical
setting
and
celebration
of
intellectual
probity
evoked
in the
title's
reference
to
Raphael's
School
of
Athens
(c.1510-12
,
Vatican
,
Rome)
are
offset
by
markings
evoking
bodily
excess
and the
smearing
of
feces.
"
(Caption
,
p.49)
; "
[Robert]
Rauschenberg's
travelling
companion
Twombly
also
took
elements
from
informel
art
, this
time
[Jean]
Dubuffet's
graffiti
vocabulary
.
Eventually
he was to
produce
paintings
marrying
the
gesturalism
of
[Jackson]
Pollock
and
[Willem]
de
Kooning
to
inchoate
scribbles
evoking
the
splotches
,
revisions
, and
erasures
of
childish
script
. His
commitment
to the
sensuality
of
Mediterranean
culture
,
which
would
lead
to his
settling
permanently
in
Rome
in the
early
1960s
,
is
conveyed
by an
ambivalent
tribute
to
Raphael's
Vatican
fresco
of the
School
of
Athens.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.50)
Material
Oil paint (pigmented coating)
House paint
Paint
Crayons (drawing material)
Pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
Canvas
Mixed media
Measurements
190.3 x 200.5 cm
Technique
Painting (image-making)
Oil painting (technique)
Drawing (image-making)
Work Type
Paintings
Oil paintings
Abstract paintings
Abstract works
Drawings
Pencil works
Crayon drawings
Mixed media
Repository
Private collection
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.49, fig.22)
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
827-48.jpg
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