The Art of Cy Twombly

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Cy Twombly, whose spare, childlike scribbles and poetic engagement with antiquity left him stubbornly out of step with the movements of postwar American art even as he became one of the era's most important painters, died on Tuesday in Rome. He was 83. Mr. Twombly with his painting "1994 Untitled (Say Goodbye Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor)," in 2005.

Michael Stravato for The New York Times

The Art of Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly’s career slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism.