Smears, Scribbles, and Scratches: Twombly at the Tate Modern
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The magnificent retrospective of veteran American artist Cy Twombly at London’s Tate Modern is a reminder that, above all else, painting is smearing and drawing is scribble. In his handling, with its extremes of slightness and scatter, informality can border on the infantile.
This show, which is curated by the Tate’s director, Sir Nicholas Serota, travels to the Bilbao Guggenheim in the fall, and then to Rome’s National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, and is the first major survey since the artist’s retrospective 15 years ago at the Museum of Modern Art.
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