Nicholas Cullinan, Tate Curator, Gives The Art Newspaper His Thoughts on the Late Cy Twombly

Earlier this month, art lost one of its most magnetic and most highly regarded personages. Born in 1928 in rural Virginia, Cy Twombly spent most of his adult life in southern Italy, painting some of the most enigmatic and distinctive images in all of postwar art. Known well for his scribbling, abstract style and his interest in classical mythology, Twombly is a giant of the twentieth century's pantheon. In this elegiac piece, Nicholas Cullinan, curator of the Tate Modern's Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Painters, gives us a warm and endearing remembrance of the deceased artist. Half-obituary and half-personal account of Twombly's last years, Cullinan's final statement on the painter's legacy is well worth the read.

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