Cy Twombly
Born on April 25 in 1928,In a city called Lexington , Virginia, (United States).
Died on July 5th in Rome ( Italy) in 2011.
He studied at Black Mountain College
Wilder Shores of Love (1984)
Painted on a canvas

The main focus I feel for this painting is at the bottom of the page which looks like a mountain or a hill of some sort , he has used a lot of natural colours ( tertiary )which I feel gives it the feeling of a eco system. Twombly has used lots of shading and different tones of colours as well which is why I feel its mainly focused on this part because it stands out over all the rest and catches the viewers eye. Twombly also have used a lot of different style brush strokes which creates a different texture to the painting also giving it the feeling of 3D ahow ever the linear marks are 2-D.As well as this he has created the texture by using long brush strokes in which looks a thick creamy colour paint I feel this adds tone to the painting too.
Twombly for the top half of his painting has used a thin paint brush with an orange colour and has written in a tiny writing in a angled way , I feel this it in interoperate wind as it gives off the affect the writing is acting like it or if fact being blowed by the wind as its has all flicks going in different directions leading you all different ways and makes the viewers eye follow of the paths which are the flicks.. The secondary colour orange in the painting however could be to interoperate fire as it starts small but then gets bigger and goes in every direction this could be shown in the paint by the thin writing or infact at the right hand corner its starts tiny but then its increases like its ready to set off and take over.
Shawn Mcnulty
Born in April on the 15th in 1975.
He is an American contemporary painter
Mantle (2008)
Used Acrylic and Pumice on canvas
The main focus for this piece of art work is in the middle of the canvas which looks like a little isolated building. He has used lots of tone to create the affect of different heats . The bottom of the piece gives off a hotter / warmer vibe as the primary colour red stands out over all of the piece how ever the red could stand for danger too where as the top half of the canvas I think gives of a cold feeling which is shown in the isolated object in the middle of the piece. The secondary colour orange gives off the affect its getting colder as you look up through the painting which links to the building to. .The linear line marks are 2-D.
He has used a range of different brush strokes however I feel he used this to cover the building to make it look like he wants the viewer to see the image but not in detail so he used the primary colour yellow in a way like a wash to cover the isolated building .Also in this piece at the bottom he seems to use straight line brush strokes making the feeling of layers.
Both these pieces of art use a range of different brush strokes and colours . Mcnulty uses different brush strokes to emphasize the faded building where as Twombly uses the range of brush strokes to create the textures and make the colours stand out more and visible. The colours are different too Twombly sticks to natural more secondary colours which have been mixed with other colours to create their tone where as Mcnulty uses mostly primary colours to make certain parts of the piece stand out a lot more and he hasn’t really used much shading either. Mcnulty piece seems to look more neat this is due to the blocks of colours and how he has created his brush strokes this is a lot different to Mcnulty because Mcnulty painting doesn‘t seem neat at all he has used not the same brush strokes plus he has used direction therefore creates a more textured and toned feeling to the painting.
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