by: shane moore sean scully. biography born in dublin, ireland on june 30,1945 and moved with his...
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BY: S H A N E M O O R E
SEAN SCULLY
BIOGRAPHY
• Born in Dublin, Ireland on June 30,1945 and moved with his family to England in 1949 where he grew up.
• In 1960 he apprenticed at a commercial printing shop in London and joins a graphic design studio.
• He studied painting at the Croydon College of Art from 1965-1967.• In 1975 he moved to the United States and became a Citizen of the U.S in 1983.
• Scully's work is heavily influenced by the American and European traditions, embodied in the figures of Mondrian and Matisse in Europe, and Pollock and Rothko in America.
• His art is characterized by marks of thick brushstrokes and textured surfaces.
• Scully's paintings are often made up of a number of panels and are abstract. Most of his pieces feature stripes and in some alternating areas of vertical and horizontal stripes are arranged in a chessboard pattern. Scully paints in oils, sometimes laying the paint on quite thickly to create textured surfaces.
• All of his colors in his paintings are complex and are taken from memories of the natural world and then used to humanize the urban grid.
• Scully’s paintings are full of ambition and are made to fill up space.
HIDDEN PICTURE #3 1975ACRYLIC AND TAPE ON CANVAS
84 X 84 INCHES
ADORATION 1982OIL ON CANVAS LINEN AND WOOD
108 X 156
DURANGO 1990OIL ON LINEN 289.5 X 457.2
BIGLANDOIL ON CANVAS 244.7 X 406.7
WALL OF LIGHT DESERT DAY 2003OIL ON LINEN 274.3 X 335.3
SMALL CHELSEA, WALL OF LIGHT #2 2000
OIL ON CANVAS
BEACH, WALL OF LIGHTOIL ON CANVAS40 X 50 INCHES
NIGHT, WALL OF LIGHT 2003OIL ON CANVAS84 X 96 INCHES
HOLLY 2004OIL ON LINEN 190.5 X 215.9
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SOURCES
• http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/Scully/Detail.cfm?IRN=128824• http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/Scully/Detail.cfm?
IRN=128901&ViewID=2• http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/Scully/Detail.cfm?
IRN=89020&ViewID=2