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DSCN0349 _ Untitled [New York City], 1953, Cy Twombly, Broad Museum, LA
My Favorite Paintings at the Broad Museum, Los Angeles
The Broad Museum truly impressed visitors with its glittering contemporary art collections. My favorite was Untitled [New York City] (1953) by Cy Twombly. This 1953 piece, in contrast to Twombly's usual repetitive cursive inscriptions, mimicking chalk on green blackboard, was more painterly, but was just as hypnotic, largely due to the numerous thin black lines crisscrossing over three three "pillars", which dominated the pale gray/white canvas. Those heavily outlined pillars were encircled with horizontal rings of various sizes, angles and heights, and those rings enmeshed with aforementioned thin wires, thus added texture and even mystery to the painting, so as some drippings over those pillars. Despite the limitation of colors and the similarity of shapes, those pillars and rings were not monotonous, due to some obvious variations — the first pillar was encircled by an additional ring plus an additional heavy vertical line drawn down from the lower ring, the middle one had a blunter tip, while and last one had a sharply angled tip. These pillars were also unevenly spaced and angled, and such unevenness helped to create some sense of movement, imbalances, and dynamics. Finally, those pillars did resemble some wounded and bleeding fingers, and this was just my own perception.
Brand New Contemporary Art Museum - The Broad Museum in Los Angeles
The Broad had an impressive array of artworks on display. Below are some of my favorites, by artists such as Julie Mehretu, El Anatsui, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Anselm Kiefer, William Kentridge and Neo Rauch.
DSCN0349 _ Untitled [New York City], 1953, Cy Twombly, Broad Museum, LA
My Favorite Paintings at the Broad Museum, Los Angeles
The Broad Museum truly impressed visitors with its glittering contemporary art collections. My favorite was Untitled [New York City] (1953) by Cy Twombly. This 1953 piece, in contrast to Twombly's usual repetitive cursive inscriptions, mimicking chalk on green blackboard, was more painterly, but was just as hypnotic, largely due to the numerous thin black lines crisscrossing over three three "pillars", which dominated the pale gray/white canvas. Those heavily outlined pillars were encircled with horizontal rings of various sizes, angles and heights, and those rings enmeshed with aforementioned thin wires, thus added texture and even mystery to the painting, so as some drippings over those pillars. Despite the limitation of colors and the similarity of shapes, those pillars and rings were not monotonous, due to some obvious variations — the first pillar was encircled by an additional ring plus an additional heavy vertical line drawn down from the lower ring, the middle one had a blunter tip, while and last one had a sharply angled tip. These pillars were also unevenly spaced and angled, and such unevenness helped to create some sense of movement, imbalances, and dynamics. Finally, those pillars did resemble some wounded and bleeding fingers, and this was just my own perception.
Brand New Contemporary Art Museum - The Broad Museum in Los Angeles
The Broad had an impressive array of artworks on display. Below are some of my favorites, by artists such as Julie Mehretu, El Anatsui, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Anselm Kiefer, William Kentridge and Neo Rauch.