My cultural life: Artist Sean Scully
Dublin-born artist Sean Scully is known worldwide for his abstract paintings of blocks and stripes of bold colour. read more
Sea Star — Sean Scully review: Colour is the winner in this elegant wrestle with Turner’s legacy
In three rooms we see Scully pushing and pulling surface and depth in dense pastels, exquisitely watery aquatint and spitbite prints, and vast paintings, where he continues to develop his language.
And while Scully’s paintings do evoke land, sea and sky, they’re as likely to reference the medieval Book of Durrow, Moroccan textiles and Van Gogh’s colour and mark-making. We see a painter wrestling not just with Turner’s legacy, but with the history of his medium. And, thankfully, without the forced juxtapositions that can ruin this kind of show.
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Sean Scully on self-belief, election billboards and the perils of rural Germany
Ahead of a major retrospective at the Hungarian National Gallery, Irish abstract artist Sean Scully reflects on six decades of redefining abstraction ... read more
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Ahead of Major Retrospectives, Take a Look at Sean Scully's Latest Monumental Sculptures in Germany
"The Waldfrieden Sculpture Park in Wuppertal, Germany, is presenting an exhibition entitled INSIDEOUTSIDE, by the Irish artist Sean Scully, through Ja... read more