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...later 1960s Twombly's layered scribbles became more regular, filling the picture with rhythmic webs. Working in that manner he produced a series of exquisite paintings dedicated to Nini Pirandello, a friend who had died. Oscillating in a thin wash of pigment, his lines have an elegiac feel, one of fading sensations and of words attempted but never arrived...
...Nini paintings are gentle. Some of Twombly's later work is merely soft. In the 1980s he began to work creamy flows of paint across the canvas in an all-too-plain signifier for the surface of water. But the last gallery of this show contains four vast canvases, part of a series called Bacchus that he completed in 2005. In each, a maelstrom of overlapping vermilion loops bleed thin trails of pigment toward the floor. The gods are dead? Don't tell Twombly. Even in old age, he can still summon thunder from Olympus...
...Staff writer Nini S. Moorhead can be reached at moorhead@fas.harvard.edu...
...terrorism offered. She said she leaves the University with the hope that terrorism scholarship will continue to grow. “I would love to see Harvard invest more fully in courses on terrorism and supporting research on terrorism,” she said. —Staff writer Nini S. Moorhead can be reached at moorhead@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Nini S. Moorhead can be reached at moorhead@fas.harvard.edu...