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Sean Scully's large-scale canvases carry on the rich legacy of postwar American abstract painting in an age when much of the critical focus has turned to subject-driven art. Using a deliberately restricted vocabulary of lines or bands of color that allude to architectural elements such as portals, windows, and walls, Scully, an Irish-born, English-trained, naturalized American, has generated a significant, vibrant, and compelling body of work that is widely collected and internationally exhibited. Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1976-1995 traces the evolution of his art through paintings and related works on paper spanning this important period of contemporary art, a time wherein Scully evolved from a painter whose work was severely hard-edge and minimal, to one whose bravura handling of paint and command of resonant color take nonrepresentational painting towards a decidedly humanistic end
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Sean Scully : twenty years : 1976-1995, Lynne Cooke, Armin Zweite, Ned Rifkin, Victoria Combalia
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- Released
- 1995
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- Title
- Sean Scully : twenty years : 1976-1995
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lynne Cooke, Armin Zweite, Ned Rifkin, Victoria Combalia
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson
- Released
- 1995
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN10
- 0500092494
- ISBN13
- 9780500092491
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Fine Art, Art, Photography, Painting & Sculpture, Exhibition Catalogues, Painting (art), Artists, Modern Art
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- Sean Scully's large-scale canvases carry on the rich legacy of postwar American abstract painting in an age when much of the critical focus has turned to subject-driven art. Using a deliberately restricted vocabulary of lines or bands of color that allude to architectural elements such as portals, windows, and walls, Scully, an Irish-born, English-trained, naturalized American, has generated a significant, vibrant, and compelling body of work that is widely collected and internationally exhibited. Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1976-1995 traces the evolution of his art through paintings and related works on paper spanning this important period of contemporary art, a time wherein Scully evolved from a painter whose work was severely hard-edge and minimal, to one whose bravura handling of paint and command of resonant color take nonrepresentational painting towards a decidedly humanistic end