CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERIES @ THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART

Welcome to; Fifty Days at Iliam!, I am your tour guide.


FIFTY DAYS @ ILIAM - CY TWOMBLY



Shield of Achilles

There are scribbles. Dark ones. They surround a red core. Smeared on a massive canvas with crayon. It is blue, black, red, and orange. The crayons are smeared around it, and there is text at the top that reads "Achilles Shield." This is a shield. Please enter the room now.

[the students enter the room.]


Heroes of the Achaeans

Massive red text in the center of the canvas reads "ACHEANS". A few lines under reads in header 2, "ACHILLES." Inbetween lines, from top to bottom, reads as follows:

Every letter "A" is replaced with the Greek delta symbol.


Vengeance of Achilles

The shield is distorted into a penis with a red shaft. It is less dense. It screams "VENGEANCE," then trails off into "OF ACHILLES."


Achaeans in Battle

Achilles's shield is there. Many Penii in combat. Faint names. As they approach the edge of the canvas, they become orange and stained.


cool fire text

RED. FLAME. IT CONSUMES. YOUR EYES AND THE CANVAS. LIKE A FIRE THAT CONSUMES ALL BEFORE IT. and it falls into the next canvas.

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((are they okay.))

(dude, i doubt it.)





Shade of Achilles, Patroclus, and Hector

Three clouds. Red, grey and bloodstained, and hollow. The fire has consumed.


House of Priam

A list of the House of Priam.

(hey, who the fuck is cassandra?)

((you think i read the iliad?))


Ilians in Battle

More penises march on in battle accompanied by triangles. More shields. The Ilians fight the Achaeans. Accompanied by gods, or those named after the GODS.

DDDDDDDDDDD >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

8=======D 8=======D 8=======D< 8=======D 8=======D 8=======D 8=======D 8=======D 8=======D


(so many penises)


Shades of Eternal Night

Armies cry. Clouds. Are dead.

Weeping over shades of eternal night.


Heroes of the Ilians

A list that reads ILIANS:


Originally, I hated this piece for many years. Then i realized the artistic process behind it. I love this piece, this room, and these canvases.

Have a wonderful rest of your tour.