Cy Twombly | Lepanto-Cycle at Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany

The title Lepanto refers to an important historical event. In 1571 events culminated in a devastating sea battle in the Gulf of Patras, during the course of which the united fleets of Venice, Spain, and the Pope (the Holy League) ferreted the Turkish fleet out of its winter quarters and destroyed it on a single day in October. Even though more than 8,000 of its soldiers alone died that day, with this victory the Christian alliance seemed to have achieved the decisive turning point in Europes struggle against the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. The twelve paintings do not, of course, narrate this history directly, but rather cast their spell on the viewer initially through the eruption of brilliant colors, the concentration and splintering of forms. Even before the title reminds us of the historical event, we perceive the cycle as a magnificent wall decoration in the tradition of Henri Matisse or Claude Monet. Painted for the 2001 Venice Biennale by Cy Twombly with acrylic colors, wax crayon and graphite on canvas The order of the pictures in this vid alternates in each case a whole picture and a detail of the picture before.
This is the second upload of this vid. I changed the music now, because of a copyright protest of UMG (Universal Music Group) by reason of the Hendrix track (Machine Gun). This first upload from 27 september 2009 had 476 calls. Thank you all and sorry. The music now is from Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.

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[angels1949]

Great art, wonderful ! Thanks for sharing this beautiful vid ! JP

[prince2000ful]

Very interesting Video. Colourful in all meanings. Directly referred to the above text."To me bloody". Thanks for sharing

[eisee8sch]

@afaf233 Lucky teacher!

[afaf233]

@eisee8sch i would not trust my kid to an art teacher who paints like that.....fraudster

[eisee8sch]

@afaf233 and, not the artists make millions, but the perverse art market!

[eisee8sch]

@afaf233 Find out a little about Twombly! Then you realize also that it gives him no longer. He is sadly died last year.

[eisee8sch]

@afaf233 In art it is not important what a stupid majority thinks ...



[afaf233]

@eisee8sch i bet i put my works on a wal and his and get 100 people that 90 percent would say that my nonesense that i paint looks better...u r just jelous...i didnt say this guy is not an artist...i said he is ...a good one too....anyone able to make millions from thsi farce deserves my utter respect for sure.....

[eisee8sch]

@afaf233

Now at least we know whom we NOT elect as president! Thanks for your openness!

(By the way! What you will do as president is not in the power of a president!

Maybe in Syria!)

[eisee8sch]

@afaf233 And you're a fool. It's that simple!