{"id":69,"date":"2011-07-07T09:59:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T13:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2011-07-17T22:46:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T02:46:32","slug":"cy-twombly-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Cy Twombly dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cy Twombly&#8217;s work, in my view, is the opposite of Conceptual Art. Venturing into the unknown when one begins a piece is to me, the whole point of making art. It&#8217;s about discovering, being present and capturing a moment in time. This is what Twombly&#8217;s work is all about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Picture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-70\" title=\"Twombly\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Picture-1-300x165.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Picture-1-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Picture-1.png 599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Each line he made, he said, was \u201cthe actual experience\u201d of making the  line, adding: \u201cIt does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own  realization.\u201d Years later, he described this more plainly. \u201cIt\u2019s more  like I\u2019m having an experience than making a picture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the NY Times article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/06\/arts\/cy-twombly-american-artist-is-dead-at-83.html?_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\">Twombly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cy Twombly&#8217;s work, in my view, is the opposite of Conceptual Art. Venturing into the unknown when one begins a piece is to me, the whole point of making art. It&#8217;s about discovering, being present and capturing a moment in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/?p=69\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.taleenbatalian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}