The Mediterranean landscape, both the physical and the literary environments, was fertile ground for Cy Twombly’s six-decade-long meditation on gesture, image, symbol, and beauty. Twombly began his art career in New York and though influenced by abstract expressionism, he quickly sought techniques of painting beyond the compositional restrictions of cubism and the existential posturings of New York painting at that time. ____ Cy Twombly, Untitled, 2006. Bronze. The Broad Art Foundation. © Cy Twombly Foundation