{"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>&#8216;s 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&amp;CURRENT_LLV_DOSSIER_PRESSE%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198674171639&amp;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&#8216;s 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}]}}