{"id":3930,"date":"2010-06-29T06:58:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2010-06-29T06:58:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:58:42","slug":"cy-twomblys-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/cy-twomblys-ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Cy Twombly&#039;s Ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3931 lazyload\" title=\"Cy-Twombly-at-Louvre-300x210\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cy-Twombly-at-Louvre-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/210;\" \/>If in Paris this summer, do not miss <strong>Cy Twombly<\/strong>\u2018s ceiling in the Louvre (Sully Wing, 1<sup>st<\/sup> floor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louvre.fr\/llv\/professionnels\/presentation_journalistes.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198674171639&CURRENT_LLV_DOSSIER_PRESSE%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198674171639&bmLocale=en\">Salle des Bronzes<\/a>,  Paris, France.) Twombly is the third contemporrary artist to be asked to contribute to the new Louvre \u2014 after <strong>Anselm Kiefer<\/strong>\u2019s monumental painting in 2007, and <strong>Fran\u00e7ois  Morellet<\/strong>\u2019s Lefuel Staircase window installations. For an article on how the painting was done, check the following <a href=\"http:\/\/svu.edu\/news\/archives\/2009\/art-professor-makes-history-at-the-louvre.aspx\">site<\/a>, detailing how <strong>Barbara Crawford<\/strong>, a professor of art at Southern Virginia University,\u00a0 assisted\u00a0  Twombly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3937\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3937\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3937 lazyload\" title=\"louvre 1.ashx\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/louvre-1.ashx_-350x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"249\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 350px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 350\/249;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The blank canvas<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3932 lazyload\" title=\"Cy-Twombly-Louvre-201x300\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cy-Twombly-Louvre-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"367\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 246px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 246\/367;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If in Paris this summer, do not miss Cy Twombly\u2018s ceiling in the Louvre (Sully Wing, 1st floor, Salle des Bronzes, Paris, France.) Twombly is the third contemporrary artist to be asked to contribute&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[263,490,1729],"class_list":["post-3930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-cy-twombly","tag-louvre","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}