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  • Опубліковано 2 вер 2008
  • Tate's Director Nicholas Serota gives us a behind the scenes tour of the Cy Twombly exhibition at Tate Modern, as he makes the final adjustments to the hang just before opening.
    A long-standing fan, Serota talks about Twombly's technique, his relationship to Turner, and how the artist, now in his eighties, is still producing some of the most vital work of his career.
    One of the most highly regarded painters working today and a foremost figure among the generation of American artists that includes Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. Twombly rose to prominence through a distinctive style characterised by scribbles and vibrantly daubed paint. This is his first solo retrospective in fifteen years, and provides an overview of his work from the 1950s to now.
    Twombly emerged as a painter at the height of Abstract Expressionism, then in 1957 he left America for Italy, where he drew inspiration from European literature and classical culture. At the heart of the exhibition is Twombly’s work exploring the cycles associated with seasons, nature and the passing of time. Several key groups are brought together for the first time, such as Tate’s Four Seasons 1993-4 with those from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition also explores how Twombly is influenced by antiquity, myth and the Mediterranean, for example the violent red swirls in the Bacchus 2005 paintings which bring to mind the drunken god of wine.
    Cy Twombly at Tate Modern ran from 19 June - 14 September 2008.

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  • @cli260
    @cli260 3 роки тому +2

    seen Bacchus last year, such an emotional experience

  • @richardchaffer3461
    @richardchaffer3461 5 років тому +13

    It was a great show, I was there and this is a fascinating video for context.
    Both are a credit to Nicolas Serota's legacy.
    Thank you.
    Richard Chaffer MA
    Artist - Multimedia

  • @boristabareag3598
    @boristabareag3598 2 роки тому

    Bold...very bold, ...Freedom...spontaneity...his hand is a sort of inner seismograph.

  • @marydreger3138
    @marydreger3138 Рік тому +1

    I very obviously have no eye at all for this style of art.

  • @barbaranagle1393
    @barbaranagle1393 4 роки тому +5

    Looking forward to our examination of Twombly. Not a big fan, therefore very glad to have the identification/interpretation of this suite. My favorite is the red battle field. It did, however, get me to look at other Twombly exhibitions at the Tate. Hero and Leandro and his water series. On viewing from a distance, I like the fluid movement to the pieces.

  • @panther9able
    @panther9able 13 років тому +2

    Great!!!I love it!!!Want to see more!!!

    • @danielmota
      @danielmota 4 роки тому +2

      Really? are you nuts?

  • @lorenzov3359
    @lorenzov3359 4 роки тому

    Geniale!

  • @tjonisaac
    @tjonisaac 15 років тому +8

    viva la CY!!! always magical and a favorite to see

  • @dalidaily
    @dalidaily 8 років тому +27

    when i was a mature student of fine art at DMU, Leicester, UK, I was told that because I reinvented myself on each painting that I couldnt have any talent. So how come this guy is thought of as talented? The emperors new clothes springs to mind

    • @yodawgiherd3518
      @yodawgiherd3518 8 років тому +3

      +Steve B. Robinson you are an idiot incapable of understanding the concepts Cy Twombly works with, that is why you never did and never will make it in the art world.

    • @dalidaily
      @dalidaily 8 років тому +13

      +yo dawg i herd thakyou for your inciting and illuminating insights into my own art and for completely missing the point I was making, which rather demonstrates how you have projected your own problems onto me as if I'm a mirror. the world is indeed a better place for having such open minded intellects such as yours wandering around in it. I hope one day to meet you where we can discuss in a civilised manner the thought process behind your inability to comprehend simple English. once again, thank you for raising my spirits. I shall now continue on my life's journey safe in the knowledge that there are people out there who can hold a discourse using more than basic English. I take my hat off to you. ;-)

    • @prosperocobbler6734
      @prosperocobbler6734 7 років тому +9

      No one but nitwits who buy the thin propaganda of the corrupt art world think he is talented. It is all exactly as it is and nothing else- garbage not worth the materials used to make them. The entire Modern/Contemporary art scene is a money laundering grift.

    • @thierrytaule1056
      @thierrytaule1056 7 років тому +6

      who ever said that there were any rules. art can be anything. and whats beautiful to you isnt to everyone else. value is not determined by how much time is spent or the cost of material, its way more than that.

    • @prosperocobbler6734
      @prosperocobbler6734 7 років тому +8

      Thierry Taule
      Yes- way more. If you wish to have your childish scribbles sold among the super wealthy and Intelligence agencies in money laundering scams it helps if you are related to one of the dons of this criminal world who owns or controls an "art" magazine or some Park Ave front operation "Art gallery" complete with paid for well dressed posers who "attend" your shows and are paid to "ooh and ahhh" at your scribbles and write idiotic "reviews" of your crap in the above mentioned glossy art magazines.

  • @theredpilgrim
    @theredpilgrim 4 роки тому +4

    Very interesting masterpieces! Thanks for sharing!

  • @rafaeldcarmo
    @rafaeldcarmo 3 роки тому +8

    Woooow what an incredible artistic work, these drawings have such complexity and magnificence that I cannot describe even 1% of all the sensations I feel when I appreciate such masterpieces

  • @ROBERTOLOVESYOU1
    @ROBERTOLOVESYOU1 11 років тому +5

    this makes me so happy.

  • @loulou2lou
    @loulou2lou 12 років тому +2

    He was an American Master and my favorite artist from the gitgo.

  • @sexobscura
    @sexobscura 6 років тому +2

    took Art to the Next level

  • @thecinematicmind
    @thecinematicmind Рік тому

    Chaotic

  • @ericmitchell133
    @ericmitchell133 6 років тому +1

    Divine

  • @excellinkus
    @excellinkus 2 роки тому

    The painting at 3:20 should be called "Shart-nado VII"

  • @leedian0
    @leedian0 11 років тому

    great.

  • @christianegonbarnthaler1426
    @christianegonbarnthaler1426 5 років тому +2

    super art cy twombly

    • @anatoos240
      @anatoos240 3 роки тому

      @John Bryan no he's not. That's why Twombly is a world famous artist.

    • @anatoos240
      @anatoos240 3 роки тому

      @John Bryan don't patronize me :p

  • @durango-CODEBUILDER
    @durango-CODEBUILDER 5 років тому +1

    Its a damn shame I missed this.

  • @IdontWatchIsee
    @IdontWatchIsee 15 років тому +1

    great cy twombly! thank you for this video.

  • @eddielong96
    @eddielong96 7 років тому +2

    OMG the ones at 4:08! what're their names?!

    • @remodernist
      @remodernist 5 років тому

      i think that series is called 'untitled (a painting in 9 parts)' 1988

  • @prosperocobbler6734
    @prosperocobbler6734 7 років тому +22

    When I repair the heels of well worn shoes, heels that have been worn past the plastic or rubber surface layer and into the wood or leather of the frame of the heel- I have to build up the heel first before attaching a new rubber or plastic heel. I use scrap leather left over from cutting leather soles. I glue and nail the scrap leather onto the worn down area of the heel, I shave it and sand it down. I make the heel level again and then attach the heel cover- nails and glue. I then, using three varieties of sanders to make the hell smooth and even. After that I color, buff, and shine the new heel in accordance to the style of the rest of the shoe. When done- a once badly worn heel is fixed anew- the repaired heels- have perfect semi circle patterns on them.
    It occurs to me after seeing Twombly's work- that I display more artistry than him every second of my work day than that guy did his whole life.

    • @prosperocobbler6734
      @prosperocobbler6734 7 років тому +8

      Apparently you didn't get it the first time. So I'll go again. Yes, even scrapping gum off the bottom of a shoe requires more attention, dexterity, and thought than this rubbish.

    • @10Scimitar
      @10Scimitar 6 років тому

      Do ye? Aye?

    • @809Muzic
      @809Muzic 6 років тому +4

      how does making art make you a con artist?? ill wait... you either buy the art or don't. he's not tricking or forcing anyone to buy it. all you criticizing in the comments are jus mad that you have no talent and wish you can paint like twombly lmao. go grab a canvas and some paint and let me see how close you come to a twombly hahah

    • @havefunbesafe
      @havefunbesafe 5 років тому +1

      Give it time...you’ll love Twombly. You’re well on your way by actually taking your time to reflect on his work!

    • @aspiknf
      @aspiknf 4 роки тому +2

      @Andnrew Morris You're crazy

  • @pekoyleoldugusoylenemeztab3427
    @pekoyleoldugusoylenemeztab3427 5 років тому

    Tipe bak

  • @LazlosPlane
    @LazlosPlane 6 років тому +4

    Money, money, money, money.... money, money, money, money. .

  • @BillWoodillustrator
    @BillWoodillustrator 2 роки тому +1

    Alas Turner’s work were much more original and enigmatic. Turner became more and more abstract after providing vast abilities and painting skills in his earlier works. Way before his time.
    Twombly?- a world behind in ability and authenticity, who just “fell into” an abstract approach.

  • @hoek334
    @hoek334 6 років тому +1

    sure.

  • @Moodamage
    @Moodamage 3 роки тому +5

    You have to be kidding me......

  • @dimaklondt3832
    @dimaklondt3832 6 років тому +8

    Starting with Malevich's Black Square, the entire line of various Rothkos, Twomblys and Frankenthalers is one long and elaborate display of the Emperor's New Clothes.

  • @manfredmangei6243
    @manfredmangei6243 5 років тому +3

    Es ist nur Gekritzel aber ich liebe es - It´s only doodle, but I love it :)

  • @celestialteapot309
    @celestialteapot309 5 років тому +15

    The Emperor is still not wearing a stitch. Imagine how good he'd be if he opened his eyes?

  • @jonplive
    @jonplive 8 років тому +12

    cy twombly was a man fully dedicated to the arts, since a young boy.
    He was able to paint beautiful landscapes, still lives, and more.
    winner of the japanese art prize praemium imperiale in 96, for him commitment to his beliefs, many of which I don't understand, but the Hero and Leandro series and Bacchus series, are undeniably beautiful and interesting in my opinion.

    • @ExplodingBumfluff
      @ExplodingBumfluff 6 років тому +3

      Yeah sure he did have some good paintings, but I think each painting should be judged on its own merit. Not based on the fact that hes made beautiful pieces in the past, or that he has the skills of a great painter or even his history as a person e.g. if he was some derranged psychopath or some avid thinker and philosopher. At the end of the day do yourself a favour and look at his untitled painting and tell me what you see. Put all his "groundbreaking" techniques and other crap aside and the detail in his "strokes" and how he "brought out the grain by using different oil strokes" and ALL that BULLSHIT and at the end of the day what you see is a crappy bunch of scribbles on a plain background. Also for everyone in the comments arguing a 4 year old couldnt do this and he used this and that technique and material its all fucking irrelevant. The painting is a piece of horsecrap and all hes done is make some circling scribbles using fancy techniques.

    • @easilydistracted5192
      @easilydistracted5192 6 років тому +2

      Well, if you're going to isolate one painting and make such a fuss about it...I honestly don't think it's possible to look at anything out of context. It's like saying Romanesque churches are inferior to Gothic churches because they're easier to build and design. It's like looking at one of Titian's Poesie paintings and ignoring everything that's around it, that exists in context, because to you, knowledge is evidently not a factor as long as the raw visual, technical execution makes you uncomfortable. I know it's a cheap thing to say because I'm not a psychologist, but it seems to me like you have so little perspective on art that, even when confronted with a sensible introduction, you try desperately to simplifiy the issue for yourself. Say, rather than read a book about it or try out the painting style yourself. You sit back in your chair, point fingers and refuse to inform yourself. Good fucking job.

    • @easilydistracted5192
      @easilydistracted5192 6 років тому +2

      Nice reply, nothing to support your theses, insults heaped upon insults, barking like a dog. Just shows that time spent on you is wasted, sadly.

    • @Curtoonstv
      @Curtoonstv 6 років тому

      ExplodingBumfluff that's just how it is. That's the market. Once an artist's work is in full demand by the public, his art goes up in value regardless how one personally feels about the painting's overall skill.

    • @Curtoonstv
      @Curtoonstv 6 років тому

      ExplodingBumfluff and art overall is in full demand by the public. From cover art to film, art will always be in full demand and most ideas derive from this specific art world. Yes, the artist will charge the hell out of you due to contracts and simply because the expense of materials and traveling. Alot of artists do commissions. Dude, it isn't like every artist is charging 1000 of dollars all of the time. My paintings sold about a good $100-$250 bucks and yes, they were bought by customers who can afford them (they were realism-based ink wash paintings) and people were suprisingly bidding. Art is like beauty in the eye of the beholder.

  • @richardkemp5550
    @richardkemp5550 Рік тому

    Here is my problem with Twombly - he uses a visual language founded by others then overlays it with literary references, like so much seasoning, to claim profundity. He seems to me to be a hanger-on of the coat tails of those artists who created the visual language he adopted. Rothko, deKooning, Pollock, etc, created that language through a search for subject. I have tried to see more than posturing in his work, but have failed. I've seen a lot of them; saw this show. I find myself simply wondering if he was perhaps a great talker and had found some conduit to the ears of the great in the Art world. That's a thing in and of its self. A talent that the great in the Art world truly value. Hearing Nicolas Serrota talk I wonder even more.

  • @andrewmorris9138
    @andrewmorris9138 10 років тому +38

    To all the haters. It's not so important not to like something.

    • @manfredheinrichvonterzelst9108
      @manfredheinrichvonterzelst9108 6 років тому +3

      yeah sure ... not important that TAXPAYER money is supporting this utter crap.

    • @watchvids7802
      @watchvids7802 6 років тому +2

      It's really easy to point at a painting and say "I don't want my taxpayer money to go there!". The painting just hangs there, visible for all. It's much harder to point at flaws in the system (e.g. legislation), they are abstract and much more hard to grasp.
      If people could organize themselves and direct their dissatisfaction in the same way at their countries' leaders like the way they do under modern art videos, democracy would look very different today 😁

    • @mathiasvoorhees6232
      @mathiasvoorhees6232 5 років тому +1

      It's what I did when I was four and didn't know how to draw.

    • @albertklassen6055
      @albertklassen6055 4 місяці тому

      I don’t think you’re a hater because you don’t like something and express that sentiment. It’s important to hear from those people too. It completes the circle if you like. Even your reaction to those you refer to as haters reflecting your own discomfort and impatience with others who do not share your appreciation for certain artistic enterprise is important. We need to hear from everyone I believe. We are after all a family and squabbles and disagreements are good for the soul as long as we remember to exercise restraint and refrain from violence. Allow our brushes and canvases to engage each other but let us drink wine and eat nice cheeses.

  • @teamcrumb
    @teamcrumb 8 років тому +1

    loved it when Matthew Collings said Cy twombly was a lazy plopper (on the facebake)

  • @binzc3052
    @binzc3052 5 років тому +4

    I was 5 when this was uploaded xD I'm 16 in 3 days

  • @markpx
    @markpx 5 років тому +4

    I find Twombly breathtaking in his being able to magically convey a timeless sense of the sublime in all of its mystery, earthiness and energized stillness.

    • @glenncambray626
      @glenncambray626 3 роки тому

      That's funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing.

  • @jeszerones
    @jeszerones 3 роки тому +4

    My daughter saw this and say "human paint this?"

  • @nikolasflameart9750
    @nikolasflameart9750 4 роки тому +16

    You're a real artist when you get featured on a TV program where you are featured in a gallery, and a man with an English accent discusses your work using simplistic vague language to make it sound deep: "It's obvious he was definitely into brushing the canvas with the brush across the canvas, which was his style." Bonus points if the English accent man kind of reminds you of the vampire killer from My Best Friend is A Vampire.

    • @scrapart2492
      @scrapart2492 4 роки тому +4

      Excellent comment. This glorified cy Twombly shit is a joke.. At least
      I can see a Basquiat painting that
      Makes sense .. There are millions of cy Twombly and basquiats out here. They act as if these so called
      Artist did this shit on the moon.and they invented chicken scratch....

    • @TS-wv4tf
      @TS-wv4tf 4 роки тому +2

      ScrapArt The way Cy dominates the canvas compositionally with simple lines is a masterful technique.

    • @jennie.cristinii
      @jennie.cristinii 4 роки тому +1

      @@scrapart2492 at least he was a famous painter and you not. Trash

  • @airbornehammer676
    @airbornehammer676 6 років тому +4

    We killed kings for this

    • @tommay631
      @tommay631 5 років тому +1

      Airborne Hammer -that’s pretty funny.

  • @laurelsheridan3817
    @laurelsheridan3817 8 років тому

    who, me or him?

  • @artistbishwajittripathy3352
    @artistbishwajittripathy3352 3 роки тому +2

    great art work

  • @laprovisional2635
    @laprovisional2635 4 роки тому

    #hamparte

  • @MrIrons-og3rg
    @MrIrons-og3rg Рік тому

    the emperor has no clothes!!!

  • @MrBuffaloGrill
    @MrBuffaloGrill 4 роки тому +6

    Literally the Emperor's New Clothes

  • @alvinhobson7090
    @alvinhobson7090 5 років тому +5

    Twombly is one of the great Artist of his time .

  • @mariovelardehere
    @mariovelardehere 3 роки тому +5

    Hahahahahahahahahshahashahahaja

  • @paulmitchell5349
    @paulmitchell5349 4 роки тому +1

    Curate's egg.

  • @twomblypublishing
    @twomblypublishing 15 років тому

    or ...it could be other motivations as well that initiate the application of the paint...let's think of other perspectives that might be valid.....

  • @binghamguevara6814
    @binghamguevara6814 2 роки тому

    A very Welshy wobbly name Cy has

  • @joel-hv8vc
    @joel-hv8vc 6 років тому

    who cares if its BS it looks sick as fuck thats all that matters!!

  • @hyunnie2
    @hyunnie2 10 років тому +34

    O

  • @nelsonx5326
    @nelsonx5326 5 років тому +3

    The big red one looks like an elephant did it.

  • @safejourney5199
    @safejourney5199 3 роки тому +1

    an adherent of the Shia branch of Islam. Less a couple of letters.

  • @christianegonbarnthaler1426
    @christianegonbarnthaler1426 5 років тому +2

    super art

  • @-TriP-
    @-TriP- Рік тому

    Getting high off your own farts is also art.

  • @sebastianmelmoth685
    @sebastianmelmoth685 5 років тому

    Hate them. But... enjoy.

  • @isaian2e
    @isaian2e 10 років тому +9

    Hey,...! I did a scribble like that on a napkin yesterday. Can you please give me a million and hang in on your wall? I'm sure no one would be able to tell the difference between my master forgery an the original.

  • @user-jv9qz2bu1r
    @user-jv9qz2bu1r 2 роки тому

    graphic marks aka scribbles

  • @facuarroyo3249
    @facuarroyo3249 6 років тому +6

    People like to talk without knowing

    • @wormswithteeth
      @wormswithteeth 6 років тому +6

      FaCu aRroYo Speak for yourself. ☺

  • @Loren_Law
    @Loren_Law 10 років тому +7

    People don't seem to understand. Talent is cheap, there are many talented people who don't have paintings hanging in galleries, but that's the who thing though, isn't it, they haven't done the work to make themselves known, which is probably at least 70% of what being a successful studio artist is all about.

    • @djbanizza
      @djbanizza 9 років тому +2

      I agree, apart from talent artists seem to need some critics to embrace their work, some famous customers and maybe somewhat quirky biography ... Exploring a certain direction for the first time also helps ... That's how I explain the success of artists whose work still seems divisive.

    • @kit9016
      @kit9016 6 років тому +1

      So really it's more about the circumstances of the person who creates the work than the merit of the work itself..

  • @abesnorkel1986
    @abesnorkel1986 12 років тому +3

    I like Cy but I object to this guys endless glib BS about him.

  • @konstantinospapaioannou2588
    @konstantinospapaioannou2588 5 років тому +4

    I like all types of avant garde/ modernist/ minimalist/ expressionist panting. This artist, however, is big crap. Total BS. Shame on those who still try to convince us that he was an artist with vision and talent. His awful crap is raping our eyes and brains.

  • @andyiswonderful
    @andyiswonderful 6 років тому +7

    The problem with artistic criticism of Twombly is that it speaks mundanely about his technique or his surfaces or his crayons, or any of a dozen boring facets of the "art" making process. It really never gets to the core of the issue, though, does it? Why should we care are Twombly? Why should we care about all of his technique? Why should we care about his boring scribbles? The art critics never get to that. Probably because, inwardly, they also know that Twombly is a hack. But, they can't go against art canon.
    Twombly is like modern symphonic music. It has had a hundred years to convince us that there is something there for us to appreciate and care about. Yet, almost everyone hates it. Because, ultimately, it is rubbish.

  • @xxxrdc
    @xxxrdc 4 роки тому +3

    Precious, fragile objects??
    The real collusion is in the art pimps capture of legitimacy then circling the wagons to exclude real artistic merit.
    Abstract art starts with Kandinsky and ends with Pollock, who rendered the dissociated electronic pixels of entropy so common on TV or computer displays when the graphic content loses coherence and becomes random patterns of noise.
    IMO, Pollock will go down in history as the one artist who mapped the end of complete decadence in the visual arts, while Duchamp signifies that modern art resonates with the mockery that Fellini or Heironymous Bosch delineated.

  • @CoreOgg
    @CoreOgg 10 років тому +16

    to all the people speaking about "fraud", "talent" or lack thereof, and so forth...it would do well to see the work in person if you haven't as it might change your opinion...keeping your mind open is not a bad idea. no one said you had to like everything, either.

    • @andyiswonderful
      @andyiswonderful 6 років тому +2

      I've been to the Menil in Houston. My mind is open. And my open mind tells me that Twombly is rubbish, OK?
      My husband and I were standing in front of a Twombly "sculpture". It was a pile of plaster, all lumps and sagging mess that had solidified. It was trash. Yet, the staff treated it as if it was some wonderful masterpiece.
      Michelangelo's Pieta is a sculptural masterpiece. I can only image the horror on his face if he saw Twombly, and heard that art critics were equating his works with Twombly's.

    • @aspiknf
      @aspiknf 4 роки тому +1

      @@andyiswonderful Even his name sucks, just kidding

  • @mathiasvoorhees6232
    @mathiasvoorhees6232 5 років тому

    I should spray elephant shit on a canvas to sell for 40 million. I could get rich. Or better yet just take a blue sheet of paper and sell it for 50 million.

  • @waltevans4490
    @waltevans4490 9 років тому +1

    hm---art??-beauty is in the eyes of the beholder,,as its said,,,its quite understandable,why many see this as child's play,,because it looks like it---to the uneducated masses,,or brain washed???--take your pick,,everyone, has a right to their option,of what they see as art----is this P,T, Barn- ham,,,,or are-you- missing something , not seeing its importance in modern art?? ,,,its nice we still have the freedom of choosing,--our tastes,,and its??not 1984 yet,?--myself,, its not my cup of tea,----,but ive done around 6000,art pieces, and i don,t like them either,,i always wanted to be van-gogh,,and only made the nutty part, pax

  • @pianostuff2731
    @pianostuff2731 5 років тому +2

    people saying that children could draw this: accept that your only hatred is the pedestal that its being placed on not the art itself. I can't believe the sheer anger at something as minute as scribbles, if i could evoke such an emotion from a single person that simply I'd be proud. And even if it was decided as bad in the art world, heres news, its therapy, you sit and spend hours losing yourself in a constant recursive theme trying to flush out all the emotions that drove you to it in the first place. If your 3 year old really does make art on that scale and has the tenacity to do it over and over, whilst their glib parents log online every day and furiously type out how much they hate abstract art, they too are probably trying to rid themselves of the pretentious anger that is enforced on them by a couple of sad people living unrealised sad lives. But hey, you have your own coping mechanisms too right.

  • @BeyondSideshow
    @BeyondSideshow 7 років тому +5

    Can't help it, I love Twombly's stuff.

    • @andyiswonderful
      @andyiswonderful 6 років тому +2

      But can you tell us why, without a lot of bather about his technique or use of materials or other tangential irrelevancies?

    • @thefairhairedboywiththered2951
      @thefairhairedboywiththered2951 3 роки тому +1

      paul w - Your comment reminds me of the film director, Lyndsey Anderson’s response to critical praise of the meaning behind one of his films switching from colour to black and white at the end. He found the in-depth pseudo-intellectual discussion as to why he did this hilarious. They had been reading things into it that just was not there. There was no artistic consideration in swapping to black and white-it was budgetary. He had no money to keep filming it in colour, so it was either abandon the film or shoot it in black and white. It is the same thing with Twombly, there is no skill or imagination required in scribbling paint on a canvas- you are reading into things that are not there. There is no aesthetic beauty in this stuff. It is pretentious pseudo -intellectual twaddle that appeals to art snobs.

    • @BeyondSideshow
      @BeyondSideshow 3 роки тому

      @@thefairhairedboywiththered2951 I understand you despise his work. It's funny, of course, how you knock "art snobs" at the same time as you declare what is and isn't aesthetic beauty :) Is this your view on abstract art in general? Or is this a line you draw at Twombly?
      But fair enough, to each their own. Just this: how on earth did you come to the conclusion that these paintings are "pseudo-intellectual"? I always liked them for their scribbly, loose, crazy childlike energy, and color schemes - plus the fact that (so far I thouhght) absolutely no intellectual explanation is necessary to enjoy them. It's art, you know?

    • @thefairhairedboywiththered2951
      @thefairhairedboywiththered2951 3 роки тому +1

      BeyondSideshow -Easy, because he is talked up by a bunch of pretentious snobs overanalysing scribbles on a canvas and over exaggerating the skill it took to make them. It’s a con job devoid of any artistic creativity that is the very nadir of modern art. If you enjoy looking at scribbly lines on a canvas then good for you- you are obviously easily entertained. More culturally sensitive people who have an objective view of what is beautiful and what can be considered talent require more complex stimulus.

    • @BeyondSideshow
      @BeyondSideshow 3 роки тому

      @@thefairhairedboywiththered2951 Yeah, I'm probably a total neanderthal compared to cultural connoisseurs like yourself. Please, tell me more about this _objective view of what is beautiful._

  • @tajbourgeoisisdead
    @tajbourgeoisisdead 11 років тому +8

    There is a lot of beauty in the imitable. There's also a lot of beauty in shit. Talent is cheap. Modern art loves a good lottery story.

  • @markrogers7546
    @markrogers7546 Місяць тому +1

    This reminds me of the Emperor's new Clothes. Let's be honest with ourselves; THIS IS SCRIBBLE. AND SCRIBBLE AIN'T ART!!

  • @christopherhaigh7899
    @christopherhaigh7899 4 роки тому +5

    who are they kidding these paintings say nothing.

  • @doloresbrea4210
    @doloresbrea4210 4 роки тому +1

    Jajajajajaja

  • @duncanhewitt977
    @duncanhewitt977 10 років тому +1

    I like Cy Twomblys drawings and I like the paintings which are graffiti paintings . But I like them in black white and grey tones mainly.

  • @StationBambu
    @StationBambu 6 років тому +6

    This really hurts my brain. WTAF is this? Well, I just found out my 3 years old son is actually a talented artist, need to start saving is drawings they might worth something.😂😂😂

    • @aspiknf
      @aspiknf 4 роки тому +1

      @paul w Nah you're crazy

  • @ExplodingBumfluff
    @ExplodingBumfluff 6 років тому +3

    I bet if some depraved psychopath with a really interesting background and life were to use some really fancy paint and expensive materials with like rare wood and shit and make a bunch of scribbles on a canvas and then if someone could excellent bullshit their way into selling the painting these guys would eat it up like a bunch of idiots and call it the next big thing. "oh the stillness of the lines and the way the strokes are so harsh and horizontal shows disdain and anger in the artists life and the bizzare array of colours shows a duality of emotion and internal struggle within the artists desires" i.e. bullshit.

  • @beachboy1683
    @beachboy1683 3 роки тому +2

    Hang on let's do some scrawl with eyes shut ,,
    ,,, w o w

    • @txicocamotl
      @txicocamotl 3 роки тому +2

      You're totally free to do it. But in order for those scribbles to have some significance/recognition, you'd have to do some homework first (meaning, a 50+ year long solid and astonishing career in the visual arts, praised by your peers worldwide).

    • @txicocamotl
      @txicocamotl 3 роки тому

      @Philip Gomez Not "preaching", but making ART. Not "converted", but SENSITIVE, RECEPTIVE, CULTIVATED. If you are not, it's OK, it's not a sin, but you should prevent yourself from blaming the art (and not your own lack of competencies to fully appreciate it).

    • @txicocamotl
      @txicocamotl 3 роки тому

      @Philip Gomez Sometimes people have not had the chance to cultivate themselves sufficiently, and that's not their fault, but the State's; this unfortunate lack prevents them from properly metabolizing nutrients contained in some forms of art. It's very sad, it's a serious problem (compromising a society's spiritual and mental health), but it's not the art nor the artists' who are to blame.If you are really interested in art, and want to explore it in its full depth, you should just dive into it, generously and without fear (and not waste your time whining about something you are somehow disabled to fully get).

  • @scrapart2492
    @scrapart2492 4 роки тому +2

    Was this shit invented by a genius and done on the moon.. ?

  • @a5dr3
    @a5dr3 2 роки тому +1

    Nonsense.

  • @christopherhaigh7899
    @christopherhaigh7899 4 роки тому +2

    they are paintings from an artist who was bereft of ideas

  • @ovh992
    @ovh992 2 роки тому +1

    Pfffffft.....

  • @JeffersonDinedAlone
    @JeffersonDinedAlone 11 років тому +17

    He was a no-talent fraud, and if he has convinced you otherwise, then his shabby deception has been successful.

    • @txicocamotl
      @txicocamotl 4 роки тому +2

      Says who?

    • @scrapart2492
      @scrapart2492 4 роки тому +2

      Says non fuckheads that's who.

    • @txicocamotl
      @txicocamotl 3 роки тому

      @John Bryan Because you say so? What are your credentials?

    • @txicocamotl
      @txicocamotl 3 роки тому

      @John Bryan And may I ask what "talent" is to you?

    • @txicocamotl
      @txicocamotl 3 роки тому

      @John Bryan You may then want to ask yourself who decides who does this or that better than somebody else. In the case of specific and highly complex human activities, such as science or art, it is usually the peers who have the main saying in those regards. And when it comes to Twombly, he is usually regarded by other outstanding peers to be an extremely exceptional and remarkable artist. That's how posterity works (and not because your mom once told you that your drawings were pretty).

  • @verticalhorizon4633
    @verticalhorizon4633 8 років тому +34

    This is shameless crap, and you all know it.

  • @goodday3603
    @goodday3603 Рік тому

    Majnu Bhai do painting more good than that.

  • @charlieburnham5611
    @charlieburnham5611 7 років тому +7

    If you don't get it that's fine, that's how art works. But don't come out on the comments section guns blazing like this is a ripoff and a con against the world because it's not! You can literally walk into the tate modern, walk round an exhibit, decide it's not for you and then walk out without spending a penny.

    • @BeyondSideshow
      @BeyondSideshow 7 років тому +1

      Charlie Burnham Amen.

    • @ExplodingBumfluff
      @ExplodingBumfluff 6 років тому +4

      its a rip off and its a con, but youre right I should judge after ive viewed other pieces of modern art and make an informed decision, so I have and i've come to the conclusion that its still a rip off and con

    • @andyiswonderful
      @andyiswonderful 6 років тому +4

      The problem is, Charlie, that you and others are not articulating what it is that we baboons are supposed to be getting. That leads to the suspicion that you do not know either.
      So, shatter us with your wisdom and insights. Why is Twombly great art?

    • @sajanpdl4166
      @sajanpdl4166 5 років тому +3

      @paul w art of seeing and thinking?? wtf you dumb ?? So basically its shit, but I have to see & think that it is a masterpiece?? How am I uneducated if I find these shit paintings(like most sane people would find) as shit?? Enlighten me you dumbass.

  • @zacharytalbot-mason8829
    @zacharytalbot-mason8829 6 років тому +7

    Is this a joke? This art is just expressionism; any deeper meaning is read into the piece by the viewer. The paintings do not "obviously relate to the 'God of wine', 'abandon' or 'freedom'" you have read that into the work yourself. I get aggravated by this guy for some reason.

  • @LockedPig
    @LockedPig 9 років тому +41

    And yes, folks, it's just a crappy scribbles on different surfaces

    • @BeyondSideshow
      @BeyondSideshow 7 років тому +7

      LockedPig - No, it's fucking great scribbles on different surfaces.

    • @onthebored
      @onthebored 6 років тому +8

      Yeah but I like crappy scribbles

    • @augustortiz
      @augustortiz 6 років тому +5

      BeyondSideshow that makes it worth Millions of dollars? please explain your thought process on the value of these pieces.

    • @zissou6928
      @zissou6928 6 років тому +2

      gotta appreciate the thoughts of mr Fartman and mr Pig. The world needs you guys

    • @Curtoonstv
      @Curtoonstv 6 років тому +3

      Augusto Ortiz it's the artist that makes it expensive. The name works like a brand. Most likely the artist's fans will believe his or her art has "some kind of meaning" behind it, based on the artist's previous works. I like abstract expressionism because it isn't a direct representation of anything. I can make an image out of those scribbles and blobs-in other words, abstract art can help provoke creativity because your brain is trying harder to make sense of the painting

  • @jamesdolph437
    @jamesdolph437 Рік тому +1

    nice tax shelters

  • @syvadcram
    @syvadcram 6 років тому +11

    The director Nicholas Serota deserves an Oscar for acting like he admires this futile and pretentious crap.

  • @farhanishak4627
    @farhanishak4627 3 роки тому +5

    The truth is you are being scammed..

  • @KR-nv3ru
    @KR-nv3ru 5 років тому +3

    So... He was crap at _both_ painting _and_ sculpture?

  • @ianhjan
    @ianhjan 4 роки тому +17

    The trick here is to con the rich art lovies that this is important and expensive work. In truth is it is complete rubbish, scribble that wouldn't be out of place in a very badly vandalised public toilet. I can see the worth in some artwork, but this is a con job in my opinion.

    • @TerrapinCreations666
      @TerrapinCreations666 2 роки тому +1

      Agreed!! My 6 year old granddaughter can do better, lol

    • @ronancollett-baritone
      @ronancollett-baritone Рік тому

      Of course, this is an absolutely valid response (I always prefer love/hate reactions like this than being perfectly indifferent) but maybe Dr Hannah Roxburgh can persuade you otherwise? ua-cam.com/video/E56P55i3HHQ/v-deo.html

  • @scrapart2492
    @scrapart2492 4 роки тому +11

    This is a perpetuitous glorified joke rite???????

  • @laurelsheridan3817
    @laurelsheridan3817 8 років тому +23

    I thought I was alone in not quite "getting" Twombley. I'm glad to see that some others share my views. I find his "paintings" actually quite silly and disturbing and for the most part just plain awful. Talent? I don't think so! Laughing all the way to the bank more like.

    • @n_7458
      @n_7458 8 років тому +11

      Philistine moron....

    • @65ADORNO
      @65ADORNO 7 років тому +1

      I like your fire. lol

    • @syvadcram
      @syvadcram 6 років тому +5

      Laurel you are 100% correct. Only mentally damaged people trying to boost they egos and show their advanced taste in art claim they like this futile and pretentious crap.

  • @aeo719
    @aeo719 5 років тому +1

    the important thing here is what it all means...Armageddon soon

  • @danielmota
    @danielmota 4 роки тому +4

    mordern art is not a real art! Get over it

  • @zenoist2399
    @zenoist2399 3 роки тому +5

    His works are certainly ugly and banal enough to be masterpeices of modern art.

    • @anatoos240
      @anatoos240 3 роки тому

      Ironically enough, your inability to discern modern from contemporary art tells me everything I need to know about your opinion.

    • @thefairhairedboywiththered2951
      @thefairhairedboywiththered2951 3 роки тому +6

      Anatoos Lol, and your ridiculous pedantry over a one sentence comment tells me everything I need to know about yours.

    • @zenoist2399
      @zenoist2399 3 роки тому +3

      @@anatoos240 A masterpeice of modern art is a cliche I use. Your total inability to discern it " tells me everything I need to know about your opinion" . I'm an artist myself and certainly do know the difference between modern and contemporary art and some of it is fantastic but this is sadly not, but it does have big money behind it. .Perhaps you should refrain from commenting on something you clearly know hardly anything about eh? Just to remind everyone it is a pile of sh&t.

    • @anatoos240
      @anatoos240 3 роки тому

      ​@@zenoist2399 Twombly inspired Basquiat and predicted the graffiti aesthetic found in street art, what have you done lately?

    • @zenoist2399
      @zenoist2399 3 роки тому +4

      @@anatoos240 More than you have. I do art and painting ,totally unlike yourself at a guess . " What have you done lately " yourself?. Tell me about your latest painting? If you are not an artist or dont actually paint anything and know nothing about it you should shut up and stop crtiticsm perhaps? You could always work at mac donalds which would suit your skills more. I'm being polite here but I view people like you as insufferable dickheads. This painting is still and always will be crap.

  • @donboo6692
    @donboo6692 2 роки тому +1

    Biggest con ever made

  • @jaywilldoit
    @jaywilldoit Рік тому +1

    I do not understand one bit why this low effort fraud is considered great.