Cy Twombly "Blooming" at GAGOSIAN GALLERY
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- James Kalm once again goes undercover to bring viewers unauthorized video of Cy Twombly's latest exhibition of paintings, "Blooming: A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things". With this collection of recent paintings Twombly has encouraged his most lyrical expressions. With a poetic sense influenced by the elegant simplicity of haiku, these pieces have a reduced color spectrum and a basic repeated form manifest as bursts of blooming blossoms. Despite having lived in Europe for the last fifty years, Twombly still holds a major place in postwar American painting. These works bare witness to his continuing vigor as a major influence among young artists.
I love the secret Twombly-cam. Bravo for getting these secret images of these cool paintings.
They are rain clouds from the world of art ready to bloom in your unconsciousness.
Thanks James and Kate 😊♥️!
Thanks James. These cy twomblys are great rebellious works...large scale, bright nonacademic happy intense- total refusnik colors -completely loosened, inalienable and free. Valerie, where are you? Are you even listening?
Gracias mile James. I have never seen face to face a real Twombly. On of this days Im going to buy one. Thank you James. From Nicarauga.
keep doing what you are doing james. great videos..
I also just thanked him . Then i saw your 13 year old comment 😍. Hello 👋🏾
Thankyou James ❤️
WOW, oh man, you guys are too much. Keep 'em comin'.
Please, please enlighten me. Open my eyes to the glory of Twombly's new clothes.
I think I missed this show. Thanks for the chance to see it.
Enjoyed this. I loved to see how the acrylic paint "behaved" in these paintings. Thanks for filming...
Thanks again Kate
Cy....the greatest of all American artists. How he made these oils look like acrylic is just one example. That bronze was cast from plaster and other objects, but I could see it painted with coffee first.
reassuring to see even a big name artist as twombly breaking out and doing something different
thanks for the sneak peek james
the proud, the matchless the sunny yet defiant late masterpieces when I the first and every time I behold these I want to whip out my girlfriend's check book absolutely stunned, overcome, transfixed.
jeffery,
That's the mission of the "Kalm Report", and don't forget to thank Kate.
Thank you for your reply. I don't mean to minimize Twombly's rightful reputation as a serious and influential artist. He has a long and distinguished career. He has greatly enriched my own appreciation of contemporary art. I also know that we need to consider the progression of art over a career. However, my point still stands. We often judge art on the reputation that proceeds it and not on its intrinsic value. We know that this wodk does have value because of the work that led up to it.
What Twombly draws from archaic mythology is its poetic emphasis on the consolation of metamorphosis; cruelty, rape and death transformed into the irrepressible burgeoning of nature. So Twombly lines up, literally some of the victims, along with their alter egos in flora and Fauna.
thanks man! smash the system
Financial success as an artist does not necessarily mean that you are a bad artist. The people who deal with Twombly's paintings (galleries, curators, collectors) may be "self-centered, conceited and egotistical" (so what?), it doesn't stop him from being a great painter, with ups and downs like any artist.
Skill is for the craftsman. Labor is for the artist. Twombly labors.
Rule number one, anyone who thinks the words are "common" and "your" should definitely be trusted over the internet as the truth.
The problem here is that this type of colorful paintings do not represent a change; Twombly has been lingering on them for three or four years (with some variations). At first, 3 years ago, they were a little risky (at least to the Twombly aficionado that I am), I agree, but now they really appear decorative, comfortable and not risky at all. Not at all like the risk Guston took in 1970. But nobody's perfect, even Twombly. And thank you James, for this video...
Thanks James!
The greatest artists like this battle with their demons to the cusp of the infinite which is captured and read by those who can see it. If you dont like it wouldn't it be better to find something you do like to comment on and leave us to appreciate this "junk"
Really appreciate your videos, always fun to watch and hear your comments.
i'm doing an artist presentation on him for class. his stuff's fantastic. thanks for sharing.
That's right. It was nice conversing with you, though. So long on another Kalm video...
that was great, thanks.
Superb James!
This is great. I love the espionage angles. Have loved Twombly's work since I first experienced a white painting of his at 10y.o. @ MOMA in 1960's.
Anyone know what the "panels" are made of? Thanks.
I was just replying to a remark by James who used the word change...Now, considering the status Twombly has attained over the years, I do not think it is a lot to expect of him to avoid the decorative. I hope you got my point...
spawndonacle,
I kind'a felt the same way, but after looking at these pieces and thinking about them I'm less negative. Twombly's near eighty the pieces are huge, and let's not forget, every thing is sold. (God only knows what his prices are in today's market.)
bellissimo evento
What would happen if an unknown artist brought these same pieces to a prestigeous gallery?
Would they be accepted? Can we simply judge an image on its own merits? Cy Twombly is a very good artist. Would he have arrived by showing these first?
I like it in the video and look forward to seeing it--by the way I think children do make "genius" art. It doesn't have the irony of say, Josh Smith, does that matter? Since I do know the artists body of work I can't go backwards but I think if I walked into this work cold I would still respond to it. As far as what people buy--I think they could do a lot worse.
Yahan. zzzzzzz. Cy Twombly is now uninteresting. His canvases say nothing. Sorry, but thanks for taking us there James!
One problem with art academia today us they teach that you need SAY something. Whilst missing the point that visual art need not say anything, It's why an artist makes paintings, to be a poet without words.
No - "impotent rage", that sounds about right.
omg, for realz ?!!
mbecze,
Twombly has achieved the status of living treasure. Not that it would effect him, but the trend of picking up "artists" before the leave grad school is running out of gas. Time to look at geezer artists with long track records. Twombly is influencing some young artists, the "New Abstraction." JK
beautiful
Nice reportage on the liberal arts, albeit exclusive
The comments about monkeys being able to paint like Twombly are so predictable and were already made 100 years ago by museum authorities in France about Picasso. This is why the best paintings by Picasso can now be admired in the US and not in France...The same goes for Renoir's nude. Revolutionary art is never accepted by the majority, because it goes against the grain.
MrWowforever and claureic: I agree. There is nothing more to say.
@nexicidious ...so stupid ... this comment.
Art has nothing to do with money and nothing to do with agreeableness. It's the hardest and bravest work of mankind because of people like you! And do you know what people like you said about Picasso fifty, sixty, seventy years ago ?
People are threatened by what they cannot understand.
"They think it's easy. They don't know it's like jumping off a 12-story building every day" (Franz Kline)...
@nexicidious Please, would you declare the difference between Twombly and Picasso?
I didn't talk about change or risk, James did. I am just saying that Twombly has fallen into comfortable and decorative art. I, myself, am not expecting that artist behave like fashion designers as you seem to imply. I expect to be bumped off my armchair, and that is what Twombly did to everybody in 1958 and what Guston did in 1970.
Good
onore al grande maestro.
What universities did Pollock and DeKooning get their degrees from? Essentially as Harold Rosenberg stated in "Revolution and the Concept of Beauty" there is nor right or left wing in art. There is only the "art world" or the "academy'. Guess what side the BFAs MFAs and PHDs are on.
@ejdf870 In your opinion what type of art is not junk?
Junk I hate. Twombly I love...
Sorry Twombly seems like an insult of my retinal pattern imprinting.
Not to place too fine a point on it but, I believe that Duchamp's contribution had as much to do with the "economics of creativity" as with aesthetics. By promoting the "ready made" he was simply shifting the practice of art making from a manufacturing based practice to a service based one. Your statement that he was "giving us permission" (a fine service to offer) undoubtedly reinforces my point. JK
hmmmmmm......
No,
Twombly is nearly 80, and I think at this point, stays close to home in Italy. JK
I like Cy Twombly, but these pieces didn't excite me as much as his other, earlier works, maybe it's because of the Oriental theme and the lack of mythological pathos, I have to think about it, anyway, that is one BIG gallery
About art, like politics, everyone is right.
Thats what devalues it.
@MrWowforever
Exactly! Now you're getting it. This drivel of Twombly's is a massive bore.
I'm no missionary and I don't care if your eyes stay closed. You like Picasso because others liked him before you...
*Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.*
~ Charles Bukowski
Oh dear rembrandtsca, if you have an interest in art I'm afraid that you needn't bother as you will struggle. ch
I think Twombly has been forgetting the LINE lately. If you look at his early paintings, up to 1964, you see his mastery of line. His current paintings I find kind of decorative; too colorful. Not the Twombly I like, who blows you away by his virtuoso treatment of the line. The works in this video are too contrived; they lack spontaneity, they are too predictable. They just don't surprise you, don't bump you off your comfortable armchair...
*A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.* ~Nietzsche
uhhh... these just don't do it for me. I love a lot of Twombly's work but this group feels forced in terms of color and thin in terms of execution...
Maybe you should do some READING before you dismiss the work!? Perhaps!?
You could, but it would be lazy and sloppy painting, not Twombly. Twombly spends entire nights on one work. Once, I saw him in a gallery: he was frantically rubbing off one of his paintings with the lapel of his jacket; to him, sth was wrong with the painting, even if it was already exhibited. Never satisfied with his own work; far from "laziness"...
Could I lazily slop some paint on a canvas and call it a painting?
Yes.
Could I predict that I could just slop some paint on a canvas and a bunch of brain dead twits would fawn all over me and pay me outrageous sums of money?
No.
You never did get there.
Sincerely,
Over Here
Its an art world axiom that your latest show is always your worst show. No matter what they say, people dont like change. For someone with the signature style of a Twombly any variation is seen as a decline, yet that is where the true risk is, even if it gets decorative. JK
Those are like a lobotomized mental case patient paintings --
@ejdf870 Then I'd rather remain a beginner in the type of lesson you pretend to teach and not attend the rest of your classes...
Over rated art , not interesting visually , not interesting contextually, not interesting in anyway. I dunno how an artist can make this “shit” and have a conscience.
I don’t like this show. His other work is more developed and more beautiful.
Stolen fruit!!
Thank you Kate.
Cummon you can paint better than that.
I prefer Banksy anyday.
Quite obviously you're confusing education with pretension.
Personally I prefer the art of people like Dali and Escher. Of course taste in artwork is a subjective thing and I try to be open minded... ...but come on.
It's a strain for me to understand how people could find these Twombly paintings even *interesting*; and the fact that some find them *brilliant* is just flat out hilarious.
There's no real art here , why make such big paintings of mediocre work ? I'm sorry to say .......(
Lazy
Shit
Comparing Twombly to Picasso is a massive insult to Picasso.
Twombly is no artist... ...unless you count scam artists.