#Sean Scully

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Sean Scully (Irish/American, 1945), Barcelona Red Black Wall, 2004. Oil on canvas mounted on board, 36 x 40 in.

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Sean Scully

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Sean Scully (b. 1945)

“Mooseurach Window”, 2023

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Sean Scully - Fire. 1984

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- By Sean Scully

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[aviel]

Sean Scully

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Untitled (Seated Figure)

Sean Scully

1967

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ARTWORK

Sean Scully

Wall of light grey pink, 2010

Art Gallery of South Australia

Sean Scully is considered a leading international abstract painter known for his compositions of layered blocks of colour and textured surfaces. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1945, Scully grew up in South London and began painting in the late 1960s before migrating to New York City in 1975.

This commanding painting is part of a major ongoing series, Wall of Light, which evolved from small watercolours on paper completed during trips to Mexico - a destination that for almost two decades has influenced the artist's approach to painting. The interlocking horizontal and vertical blocks of colour in the series were inspired by the patterns and rhythms of light and shadow that play across Mayan stacked stone ruins in the Yucata. An experimentation with colour and light, in this painting Scully has built up diffuse layers of grey and pink oil paint, in varying degrees of light and darkness, on an aluminium surface.

Scully does not shy away from grand Romantic ideals and the potential for personal revelation and enlightenment through art. With his paintings, he strives to combine, as he has said, 'intimacy with monumentality'.

What I connect with…

An artist I have been looking at this past year in art history. Scully’s work lacks the transcendent beauty of a Rothko but is still pursuing similar ideas as colour field paintings. The term ‘colour fissures’ I believe originates from Scully to describe the little bits of edge colour poking through, although I dislike the term I love the use of this as a device in a painting that helps give vitality to these areas of colour. This painting isn’t ground breaking but I love the rough edges found throughout that are echoed in the way the paint comes almost to the edge.

[michaelmathewsart]

“Terminal 03" (The Death of Sean Scully)

[Terminal series)

by michael mathews

mixed media & collage on canvas

20x20x1.5 inches

2024

www.michaelmathewsart.com

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[thunderstruck9]

Sean Scully (Irish/American, 1945), Untitled, 1991. Pastel on paper, 39 1/2 x 59 in.

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Sean Scully

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Almost Angels (1962)

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Sean Scully - Samar. 1990

[mv11]

- By Sean Scully