{"id":3928,"date":"2015-01-19T15:21:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T22:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2015-01-19T15:41:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T22:41:42","slug":"treatise-on-the-veil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/treatise-on-the-veil\/","title":{"rendered":"treatise on the veil"},"content":{"rendered":"

I caught this Cy Twombly exhibition in New York just at the end of its run. The museum happened to be open on Monday due to the Martin Luther King holiday. <\/p>\n

I’ve been getting interested in Cy Twombly on Pinterest because of his sketchiness and inclusion of handwriting in his work. <\/p>\n

This monumental Treatise on the Veil (Second Version) is rarely exhibited because of its size. <\/p>\n

Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil<\/a><\/p>\n

I couldn’t take pictures in the gallery but I grabbed this one from the website. <\/p>\n

\"Cy<\/a>

Cy Twombly: Treatise on the Veil<\/p><\/div>\n

I sketched out some couplets to capture my first reactions to the Treatise. <\/p>\n

An imperfectly cleaned chalkboard
\nthat opens to soft drips and imperfect coatings<\/p>\n

At “eye-level” imperfectly applied lines of chalk
\ntwo evanescent traces of blue and blue<\/p>\n

Scribbling – why? why is the artist’s
\nhandwriting so atrocious? <\/p>\n

Conscious enough to notice a mistake
\nin the interpretive panels – <\/p>\n

I think they wrote 4
\nwhereas he was writing 8<\/p>\n

why one person’s traces preserved
\nthe others a vast garbage heap? <\/em><\/p>\n

I liked the patched together nature of the studies, loaded down with tape and scribbling, as well as stamped with dates and numerals. Trying to organize the nature of art. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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