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ANCIENT CARVINGS 221PROCESS AND HARMONY
Many ancient cultures have made and left behind
drawings and texts carved into stones or animal Untitled
bone, such as the Rosetta stone, the Babylonian
world map, and American Indian petroglyphs (see 1970
p.241). This example is one of two chalk tablets
found in a Late-Neolithic pit, close to Stonehenge CY TWOMBLY
in Wiltshire,England.Thesite's purpose is unknown;
theories suggest astrological observations, burials,
and the worship of the sun and ancient gods.

Cut lines Chalk carves easily. Precise lines suggest the use of a
sharp flint The framed rectangle of this image is echoed in that
of Abe's installation. The central pictorial space is also similarly
cut and divided by the considered arrangement of straight lines.

Neolithic Chalk Tablet

3,000-2,400BCE

21/4 x 21/4 in (58 x 58 mm)
ARTIST UNKNOWN

CY TWOMBLY Language Over the course of fifty years, Twombly has
Contemporary American artist who emerged evolved a raw, energetic, emotive, and sensuous language
through the 1950s New York art scene in the heyday that challenges the separation of word from image, and
of Abstract Expressionism and Action Painting. At the drawing from painting. Many of his graffiti-like works
2001 Venice Biennale,Twombly was presented with a combine abstract gestures with statements. Here we
Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement. might seek to grasp letters in the turning of his line.