Cy Twonbly

“He connects to the classical world in a way that is deeply emotive,” Dean said. “I’m interested in where your mind goes when you look at one of his works. It can go to memory, it can go to envy — you think, ‘God, that’s so perfect.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/arts/design/tacita-dean-drawings-twombly-menil.html

“Dean, like Twombly, is fixated with time,” The Guardian in 2011. “She has photographed a ruined modernist house on an overgrown island, filmed nuns eking out their days in a dying religious community, and recorded the last days of a Kodak factory.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/arts/design/tacita-dean-drawings-twombly-menil.html

“It pushes against technological interfaces that are removing us further and further from what is real,” Michelle White added. “Her drawings — and the simple act of revealing that there is a human person making a mark on a surface in time — is both fundamental and profound.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/arts/design/tacita-dean-drawings-twombly