Sean Scully
Irish artist (born 1945) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sean Scully RA (born 30 June 1945) is an Irish-born American-based artist working as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer. His work is held in museum collections worldwide and he has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. Moving from London to New York in 1975, Scully helped lead the transition from Minimalism to Emotional abstraction in painting, abandoning the reduced vocabulary of Minimalism in favor of a return to metaphor and spirituality in art.
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Born | (1945-06-30) 30 June 1945 (age 78) Dublin, Ireland |
Nationality | Irish[1] |
Education | Croydon College of Art (1965–1968) Newcastle University (1968–1972) Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (1972–1973) (graduate fellowship)[2] |
Known for | Painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, art and writing |
Movement | Geometric abstraction and emotional abstraction |
Scully has also been a lecturer and professor at a number of universities and his writing and teachings are collected in the 2016 book, Inner: The Collected Writings and Selected Interviews of Sean Scully.