3 August 08
www.tate.org.uk
For more than half a decade, Twombly has been working in a vocabulary of elliptical signs - slanting hearts, sexual organs, blobby orbs and splodges of squishy paint applied with brush and finger, and loops of "automatic" writing. His art is primitive, rough, messy; he is the cave painter of abstract expressionism. Yet his pictures are also - for those of us who fully understand the art of twombling - graceful, magisterial and delicate...
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Hard work but worth persevering - show ends 14 September!!7 out of 10
