Article · Ruth Armitage
Artistic Influences: Cy Twombly
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
About this lesson
Working abstract painter Ruth Armitage describes challenging herself to bring more expressive, asemic line work into her own paintings after studying Cy Twombly, contrasting his repetitive marks with her own more varied gestural line.
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