Each time an artist dies, we lost something important in the world, but the work remains forever, and the only good thing about it, it’s the immediate fame it retakes, the attention her or his art receives after the death it just happened. This Tuesday Cy Twombly passed away in Rome, so here are a few links worht to navigate if you’re interested:
His official site with bio, gallery, texts, and more.
Podcast about his role in Modern Painting from his retrospective in Tate Gallery in 2008.
My hero Cy Twombly by Edmund de Waal.
A view of the images from the book Cy Twombly: Photographs 1952 – 1999