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Sean Scully (* 1945 in Dublin) is considered one of the most
significant abstract painters of our time. For decades he has
produced a wealth of variations on his core theme of lines and
stripes, creating works with a fascinating range of tone and
expression from the romantic to the melancholic. Early on in his
career Scully did figural work, to which he still feels
indebted; “To this day my paintings retain a sense of the body,
and the feeling of a physical relationship with the world.” He
considers German Expressionism one of his sources of inspiration
and specifically cites the influence of artists André Derain,
Henri Matisse, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
The stroke of the brush is a visible component of his painterly
abstractions. The edges of his fields of color are delineated by
hand, which lends his compositions a haptic quality. Presenting
surprising new perspectives on the artist’s work, this
publication is the first study on the interplay between figuration
and abstraction in Scully’s oeuvre. Ausstellungen/Exhibitions:
Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus Koblenz 31.8.–16.11.2014 |
Kunsthalle Rostock | Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
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