Sublime

mark—doodle, diagram, trace—is his genius, but so, too, is the name—his name, written again and again: Edwin Parker, Cy Jr., Cy Twombly, Twombly, CT, Cy.

“It’s instinctive in a certain kind of painting,” Twombly said, “not as if you were painting an object or special things, but it’s like coming through the nervous system. It’s not described, it’s happening.”