Leda and the Swan
Cy Twombly (1962)
Cy Twombly’s Leda and the Swan condenses the Greek myth into an <strong>orgiastic collision</strong> of marks: graphite scrawls, smeared whites, blush pinks, and eruptive reds radiate from a dark, compressed vortex. A sketched <strong>window-like rectangle</strong>, heart and phallic glyphs puncture the storm, making desire and violence legible as emblems rather than images <sup>[1]</sup>.
