Yesterday, hardly three years after its extraordinary retrospective one in the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao – one of most beautiful than exhibited in its life and of the titled exhibition Lepanto, in the Museum of the Prado, it died in Rome Cy Twombly (Lexington, Virginia, 1928), without a doubt one of the most excellent and singular American artists of second half of the century XX, that was the stage sea bream of the American art. However, this recognition, today universally undisputed, took in forging itself in its own country, that it did not pardon to him that it settled in Italy as of the decade of the Fifties, right at the moment in which the American abstract expresionismo prevailed internationally, first step of an artistic dominion that has stayed almost until now same. Source of the news: : Cy Twombly passes away, the last genius of the abstract expresionismo.