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Art Cy Twombly: Blooming: A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things

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This summer, police arrested a woman for kissing and leaving a red lipstick stain on one of American artist Cy Twombly's works. "It was an act of love," she said in her defense. "When I kissed, I wasn't thinking." Talk about the power of art. In Twombly's current exhibition at Gagosian, he's covered the canvases himself with bright peony blossoms, efflorescent flows of paint, and haikus etched in his now-signature scrawl. The large horizontal paintings are both reverential of the flowers so important to the Japanese aesthetic and representative of the feelings of an artist in the later stages of his life and career. With a varied and startling color palette, they're sure to stimulate the senses and arouse passion in viewers — which, evidently, is Twombly's forté.

– Elana Jacobs

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