Harriet Thorpe reviews Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, on view through August 30, 2015.
Thorpe writes: "The works in the final room are a combination of styles accumulated throughout the exhibition; drawing, collage and painting on paper. We see the emergence of Twombly’s celebrated style seen in larger-scale works that explode with colour and natural shapes... Colour is one of the major accelerations of this room... From drawings with crayon and house-paint, to experimentation with symbols and numbers, to collage, to paint dripping and, finally, to the accumulation of techniques, the exhibition is a journey through Twombly’s experimental processes, which reaches a climax in style and composition parallel to his larger-scale practice."
