The artists on this year's shortlist are all studiously versatile, cross-fertilising painting with installation, stitching with drawing, words with images.
In reality, although close friends with these and other artists of the New York Abstract School, he deliberately diverged from their ambitions of pure abstraction in colour to introduce drawing, words and different materials.
ABOUT THE ARTIST Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, 1928-2011, was one of the outstanding figures of American post-war art, famous for introducing pencil drawing, words and literary references into abstract art and for painting vast canvases.
This reference model generates documents whose length is drawn from the lognormal distribution fitted to the empirical data (see Materials and Methods) by drawing words independently at random from the global Zipf frequency distribution (Fig. 1a).
Most popular methodologies: relaxation practice, drawing words and discussion them in a group, community therapy, music therapy, simulated jury, short texts and discussion.
"You draw word pictures, but you don't feel the visual side of your brain is working".
"Nature is a dictionary," he said, "one draws words from it".
It even drew words from South African President Jacob Zuma, who called it "shocking," "cruel" and "most inhumane," saying such a crime has "no place in our country".
The software draws words from the inventor's title and primary descriptions to write the application in the prose and format particular to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
