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Celebrated American painter Cy Twombly loses cancer battle, dies at 83<\/h1>\n

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Cy Twombly’s 1961 painting ‘Ferragostso 1.’ (Tate via\u00a0Bloomberg News<\/a>)<\/em>
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ROME<\/a>\u00a0– Celebrated American painter\u00a0Cy Twombly<\/a>, whose large-scale paintings featuring scribbles, graffiti and references to ancient empires fetched millions at auction, died Tuesday. He was 83.<\/span>
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Twombly, who had cancer, died in Rome, said\u00a0Eric Mezil<\/a>, director of the Lambert Collection in Avignon,\u00a0France<\/a>, where the artist opened a show in June. Twombly had lived in\u00a0Italy<\/a>\u00a0since 1957.<\/p>\n

“A great American painter who deeply loved old\u00a0Europe<\/a>\u00a0has just left us,”\u00a0French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand<\/a>\u00a0said in a statement. “His work was deeply marked by his passion for Greek and Roman antiquity, and its mythology, which for him was a source of bottomless inspiration.”<\/p>\n

Twombly was known for his abstract works combining painting and drawing techniques, repetitive lines, scribbles and the use of words and graffiti. He is often linked to the legendary American artists\u00a0Jasper Johns<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Robert Rauschenberg<\/a>, whom he met as a student in\u00a0New York<\/a>\u00a0in the early 1950s.<\/p>\n

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from NY Daily News and AP Celebrated American painter Cy Twombly loses cancer battle, dies at 83 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cy Twombly’s 1961 painting ‘Ferragostso 1.’ (Tate via\u00a0Bloomberg News) ROME\u00a0– Celebrated American painter\u00a0Cy Twombly, whose large-scale paintings featuring scribbles, graffiti and references to ancient empires fetched millions at auction, died Tuesday. He was 83. Twombly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}