Experts
Sean Scully
Artist
The artist refutes jingoism and says optimism is the only path. Read More
Sean Scully Describes the Essence of Luxury. Read More
The artist describes the importance of the human element. Read More
Sean Scully on the remaking of the art world. Read More
The artist channeled arrogance and humility to achieve his goals. Read More
The artist says that while art isn't crucial, you can't kick it out of the cultural carpet. Read More
The artist tells the story of the painting that made him become an artist. Read More
The artist says you have to be sensitive and insensitive at the same time. Read More
The artist talks about how he creates. Read More
The artist describes how he "gets ready" to paint. Read More
The artist describes his route from representation to abstraction. Read More
The artist wants his work to reveal everything all at once. Read More
Sean Scully on his philosophical mission statement. Read More
About Sean Scully
Sean Scully is a leading representative of a new generation of abstract painters that emerged towards the end of the twentieth century. His work is strongly acclaimed, and has been exhibited in museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Albright-Knox Gallery, Galleria de Arte Moderna, Bologna and Gallerie Jeu de Paume, Pais.
Sean Scully has moved steadily over the past three decades to his current position in the highest rank of painters working in the abstract tradition. Scully began painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s amid the dominance of Op Art in Britain. He then moved to America, where, after five years of struggle, he found his painterly voice in the stripe. Scully has relentlessly pursued the possibilities offered by his exploration of colored stripes, always remaining true to his assertion that "the stripe is a signifier of modernism."