In 'Duino', Cy Twombly has created a surface reminiscent of his renowned large 'blackboard' paintings of the same era: a dark, graphite-colored ground in oil-based housepaint is washed with gestural swathes of chalky pigment, as if bearing the traces of inscriptions written and removed.⠀ ⠀ The present work forms a concise tribute to the Duino Elegies, a cycle of intense, mystical poems concerned with beauty, suffering and salvation by Rainer Maria Rilke. Their ideas dovetail with Twombly's own i

Immerse yourself in Cy Twombly's 9-part series of "green paintings." The artist made the work for the 1988 Venice Biennale and noted that in the depths of the hot and humid summer show, he wanted the works to feel like a cool mint julep. Refresh this week and see these works at the Cy Twombly gallery at menil.org/visit. Cover 🎨: Cy Twombly, "Untitled" (detail), 1988. Oil and acrylic on plywood. 103 7/16 × 63 1/4 in. (262.7 × 160.7 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the artist. © Menil

In the 1950s Cy Twombly wrote that the act of painting could come out of ‘one ecstatic impulse’. Discover the artist's spectacular canvases & swirling throws of paint—on free display at Tate Modern. 🩸 https://bit.ly/3hkkEHC 🖌️ | Tate

🔊 Hear Emma Baker, our Contemporary Specialist, delve into the explosive canvases of American master, Cy Twombly. In this episode of 'Expert Voices' Emma discusses how living in Rome inspired the artist to combine past, present and future in a style all his own.🎨 https://bit.ly/3gHFWQr | Sotheby's