School of Athens.
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Title |
School of Athens. |
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Creator |
Twombly, Cy (American painter, draftsman, printmaker, and sculptor, born 1928) |
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Date |
1961 |
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Cultural Context |
American
North American |
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Style/Period |
Modern (styles and periods)
Abstract (fine arts style)
Contemporary |
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Subject |
Abstract paintings
Abstract works
Abstract drawings
Allusions
Graffiti
Arches |
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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) |
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Material |
Oil paint (pigmented coating)
House paint
Paint
Crayons (drawing material)
Pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
Canvas |
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Measurements |
190.3 x 200.5 cm |
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Technique |
Painting (image-making)
Oil painting (technique)
Drawing (image-making) |
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Work Type |
Paintings
Oil paintings
Abstract paintings
Abstract drawings
Abstract works
Drawings
Pencil works
Crayon drawings |
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Repository |
Private collection |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.49, fig.22) |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 827-48.jpg |
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Rating |
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