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'''Cy Twombly''' (Edwin Parker Twombly, Jr.) (Lexington, [[Virginia]], 1928 – Rome, [[Italy]], 2011) was an American [[painter]] and [[sculpture]]. From 1948 to 1951 he attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in [[Boston]], MA. and in 1948 - 1951 he attended Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA.  In 1951-1952, at the Art Students League, [[New York]], NY. and Black Mountain College, Beria, NC. In 1952 Travelling Grant, The Richmond Art Museum. The most influential person on his formative years was the Spanish artist Pierre Duara. [http://www.cytwombly.info/twombly_biography.htm]  

'''Cy Twombly''' (Edwin Parker Twombly Jr.) (Lexington, [[Virginia]], 1928 – Rome, [[Italy]], 2011) was an American [[painter]] and [[sculpture]]. From 1948 to 1951 he attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in [[Boston]], MA. and in 1948 - 1951 he attended Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA.  In 1951–1952, at the Art Students League, [[New York]], NY. and Black Mountain College, Beria, NC. In 1952 Travelling Grant, The Richmond Art Museum. The most influential person on his formative years was the Spanish artist Pierre Duara. [http://www.cytwombly.info/twombly_biography.htm]  

Twombly was a recipient of numerous awards; in 2001 he was the winner of the Leone d'Oro for Contemporary Art at the [[Venice]] Biennale (he was already invited to exhibit his work at the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1989 where his works were described as “almost [[Monet]]-like in their atmospheric brushwork and all-over patterns” [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/8620297/Cy-Twombly.html]). Another important award: In the spring of 2010, after several years in the making, Twombly's monumental ceiling painting, measuring nearly four-hundred square metres, was inaugurated at the Salle des Bronzes in the [[Louvre]], Paris. [http://www.cytwombly.info/twombly_biography.htm]

Twombly was a recipient of numerous awards; in 2001 he was the winner of the Leone d'Oro for Contemporary Art at the [[Venice]] Biennale (he was already invited to exhibit his work at the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1989 where his works were described as “almost [[Monet]]-like in their atmospheric brushwork and all-over patterns” [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/8620297/Cy-Twombly.html]). Another important award: In the spring of 2010, after several years in the making, Twombly's monumental ceiling painting, measuring nearly four-hundred square metres, was inaugurated at the Salle des Bronzes in the [[Louvre]], Paris. [http://www.cytwombly.info/twombly_biography.htm]