Every Thursday, we share a favorite book about drawing and artists working in the medium.📚📚 〰"Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate — it is the sensation of its own realization.” - Cy Twombly. 〰 “Cy: Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper” looks at eighty-four works organized by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in 2003. One of the prominent detractors of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Twombly has been resistant to labels throughout his entire career. Transcending the “-isms” of the art world, Twombly’s hand is one of the most notable in modern art. Using the simplest materials - such as pencil, crayons and wall paint - Twombly creates complex narratives, often reflecting on history, landscape and beauty, as seen in his mythological works. He explores the process of writing, equating scribbles to handwriting and evaluating the connections of writing, written word, and the mythologies and histories that they hold. ...