Sean Scully’s ART

Sean Scully’s ART Sean Scully (born 30 June 1945) is an Irish-born American painter and printmaker who has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. His work is collected in major museums worldwide. Scully was born in Dublin and raised in South London. He studied at Croydon College of Art and Newcastle University. He was a recipient of a graduate fellowship at Harvard in the early 1970s and subsequently settled in New York. Scully was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1989 and 1993. He has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, and is represented in the permanent collections of a number of museums and public galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., The Art Institute of Chicago, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the National Gallery of Australia, the Tate Gallery, London, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and many other private and public collections worldwide. In 2006 Scully donated eight of his paintings to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, which opened an extension that year with a room dedicated to Scully’s works. In 2005 to 2006, Scully’s Wall of Light series was displayed at museums across the United States. The work originated in a trip Scully took to Mexico in 1983. He combines abstract works with figures. “ I hold to a very Romantic ideal of what’s possible in art, and I hold to the idea of the ’personal universal.’ This is a complex agenda. My project is complicated in this way, and in that sense I’m out of fashion. I’m going against the current trend towards bizarreness, oddness; as you just called it, the ’esoteric’, which of course was around in the 1930s. That’s what is being revisited now. In between the two great wars, there was a very strong period, particularly in Europe, of a strange, bizarre, distorted and perverse kind of figuration, with freaks in the paintings. Very disturbing twins, subjects like that. These paintings were mostly coming out of Italy and Germany. Now we have a return to that—again in a strange period, after the end of Modernism. “ Nowadays Scully lives and works in New York City, Barcelona, and Munich. He was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (From Wikipedia) Music by “FingersInTheNoise - MarchandDeSable“