Sean Scully

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Widely acclaimed for his abstract oil paintings, Sean Scully is an artist whose works often combine geometric structures with contrasting soft edges and thick uneven surfaces to form alternating panels of coloured squares or stripes – such works as Green Ascending and Rouge perfectly exemplify his trademark style of painting.

« I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music. »
Sean Scully

Liliane 5

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Although his abstract works appear to have no specific reference, Scully’s previous employment as a typesetter had a great bearing on his later artistic outputs, and of his Land Sea exhibition, Scully noted that his experience of visiting Venice was a major influence as he sought to recreate ‘the movement of the water, how it heaves against the brick and stone of the city’;

« When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me. »
Sean Scully

the artist also noted that his earliest memory of art is of a series of devotional paintings on show at a local Catholic church where he grew up, commenting that they were ‘very geometric, like Russian paintings.&rsq Read More

Ireland / male artist / Hard Edge art / Concrete art / Geometric Abstract art / Late modernism / Lyrical Abstraction / Postminimalism / Colour Field Painting

ARTWORKS BY Sean Scully

Sean Scully

Red Fold, 2006

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Sean Scully

Liliane 8, 2010

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Sean Scully

Liliane 5, 2010

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Sean Scully

Standing II, 1986

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Sean Scully

Untitled (from Seven Mirrors), 1997

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Sean Scully

Cut Ground Red, 2012

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Wall of Light (Red), 2002

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Narcissus, 1985

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Sotto Voce, 1988

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Standing 2, 1986

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Blue Fold, 2006

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Wall, 1988

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What is Postminimalism?

Postminimalism describes the range of art styles in the 1960s which followed Minimalism. Forms of art common the term include conceptual, body, performance, process and site-specific themes. While Minimalism generally embraced impersonality, postminimalists sought to retain Minimalism or embrace expressiveness; investigating new materials and techniques.

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