{"id":1018,"date":"2012-10-15T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T19:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2016-08-30T22:28:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T02:28:17","slug":"twombly-and-the-school-of-fontainebleau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/all\/twombly-and-the-school-of-fontainebleau\/","title":{"rendered":"Twombly and the School of Fontainebleau"},"content":{"rendered":"

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top : Orion II 1968 Marx Collection, Berlin
\nbottom : Free Wheeler 1955 Marx Collection, Berlin<\/p>\n

from the exhibition description :<\/p>\n

To consider the works of painter Cy Twombly only within the context of the art movements
\nof the 20th century would not do full justice to his work. His gestural, lavish compositions
\nare too complex, interspersed with small figurative sketches, numbers, words, and quotations.
\nIn many cases his canvases are covered with a thick impasto; in others his compositions
\nsuggest a generous sense of emptiness. Twombly draws unusual associations between
\ngeometric order and chaotic knots of color, figuration and abstraction, image and concept,
\npainting and literature.<\/p>\n

Cy Twombly, who was born in 1928 in Lexington (Virginia) and died in 2011 Rome, lived
\nin Italy as of 1960. This move inspired Twombly s intensive study of European art history.
\nIn his work he established relationships to the Italian artists who had left Italy for France in
\nthe 16th century, founding the ‘Ecole de Fontainebleau’, as well as to 17th-century French
\nartists who were influenced by this school, such as Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665).<\/p>\n

The Fontainebleau school is a Mannerist decorative style, which was developed in the mid
\n16th century in the Fontainebleau Chateau. The French king Fran\u00e7ois I commissioned
\ntwo Italian artists Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540) and Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570)
\nto decorate his chateau. Under their direction, Fontainebleau was transformed into a
\nGesamtkunstwerk, which unfolded ist luxurious splendor through its architecture, gardens,
\nand extremely complex decorations.<\/p>\n

Fiorentino and Primaticcio not only designed the paintings, frescos, tapestries and sculptures
\nrequired for the official representation of the court, they also used graphic media to disseminate
\ntheir programmatic repertoire. Hamburger Bahnhof presents a selection of these art works
\nfrom the collections of the Kupferstichkabinett and the Kunstbibliothek (Staatliche Museen
\nzu Berlin), offering an unusual dialogue with works by Cy Twombly from the Marx Collection.<\/p>\n

Location: Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwart – Berlin, Invalidenstra\u00dfe 50, 10557 Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                                      top : Orion II 1968 Marx Collection, Berlin bottom : Free Wheeler 1955 Marx Collection, Berlin from the exhibition description : To consider the works of painter Cy Twombly only within the context of the art …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-the-beautiful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}