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Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr. ( /saɪ ˈtwɒmbli/) (April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011) was an American artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. He exhibited his paintings worldwide.
Twombly used the nickname "Cy", after his father (also nicknamed Cy, who was briefly a pitcher in Major League Baseball) and the star baseball pitcher Cy Young. Twombly's paintings blur the line between drawing and painting. Many of his best-known paintings of the late 1960s are reminiscent of a school blackboard on which someone has practiced cursive "e"s. Twombly had at this point discarded painting figurative, representational subject-matter, citing the line or smudge – each mark with its own history – as its proper subject.
Later, many of his paintings and works on paper moved into "romantic symbolism", and their titles can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words. Twombly often quoted the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, as well as many classical myths and allegories in his works. Examples of this are his Apollo and The Artist and a series of eight drawings consisting solely of inscriptions of the word "VIRGIL". In a 1994 retrospective, curator Kirk Varnedoe described Twombly's work as “influential among artists, discomfiting to many critics and truculently difficult not just for a broad public, but for sophisticated initiates of postwar art as well.” After acquiring Twombly's Three Studies from the Temeraire (1998–99), the Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales said "sometimes people need a little bit of help in recognising a great work of art that might be a bit unfamiliar". He is said to have influenced younger artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, and Julian Schnabel.
It would be, it would be
It would be so simple
What it is ain't what it was
What should it be when it comes to you and....
How it seems ain't how it is
There's been a change when it comes to me and...
Oh baby you
Oh baby me
Oh maybe we can try another day
Another way
All in my mind
I'm wondering why we cannot find
What was left of the beginning
If I could
Meet you again,
Miss you again,
Kiss you again
It would be, it would be so simple
Cause I would love you again
Hold you again
Need you again
It would be, it would be
Could it be, could it be so simple
Now it's hardly simple,
It's just simply hard
When it comes to you and
I find myself not being myself
Just to avoid all this confrontation with
Oh baby you
Oh baby me
Oh maybe we can put this armor down
And settle down
Oh it's off track
That is a fact
Can we get it back
Get it back to the beginning
If I could meet you again,
Miss you again,
Kiss you again
It would be, it would be so simple
Cause I would love you again
Hold you again
Need you again
It would be, it would be
Could it be, could it be so simple
Don't you know that it would be
Don't you know that it could be
Don't you know that it would be
Meet you again,
Miss you again,
Kiss you again
It would be, it would be so simple
Cause I would love you again
Hold you again
Need you again
It would be, it would be