%C2%A9 Sean Scully %2F Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C NY %2F IVARO%2C Ireland
Santa Barbara 22, 1987
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Gift of Mary and Bob Mersky in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Minneapolis Institute of Artexpand_more 2015.120.8
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Painter and printmaker Sean Scully began his career in the 1960s as a proponent of Minimalism, an art movement that emphasized highly simplified linear and hard-edged geometric compositions that often concealed the artist’s hand. By the 1980s, Scully had become dissatisfied with the constraints of the cool, emotionally detached qualities of Minimalism, and sought a more lyrical and personally expressive approach. Building on the limited geometric vocabulary of his earlier work, Scully infused his later abstractions—like this monotype of 1987—with a looser, more gestural style that arose from a subtle manipulation of color, tone, texture, and the layering of forms. As a result, Scully’s abstractions took on a poetic tenor, a quality accentuated by Scully’s frequent use of place name titles.
Details
- Title
- Santa Barbara 22
- Artist Life
- American (born Ireland), 1945
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.120.8
- Provenance
- Mary and Robert Mersky, Minneapolis; given to MIA, 2015
- Curator Approved
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