He received his Bachelor of Arts from Newcastle University in 1972.
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Wanting to be an artist from an early age, Scully attended evening classes at the Central School of Art in London from 1962 to 1965, and enrolled full time at Croydon College of Art, London from 1965 until 1968. Sean Scully was born in Dublin in 1945 and raised in South London. While monumental in scale and gesture, Scully’s work retains an undeniable delicacy and sincerity of emotion. His work synthesises a thoroughly international collection of influences and personal perspectives – ranging from the legacy of American abstraction, with inspiration from the likes of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, and that of European tradition, with nods to Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian, as well as references to classical Greek architecture. Having developed a style over the past five decades that is uniquely his own, Scully has cemented his place in the history of painting.
While known primarily for his large-scale abstract paintings, comprised of vertical and horizontal bands, tessellating blocks and geometrical forms comprised of gradated and shifting colours, Scully also works in a variety of diverse media, including printmaking, sculpture, watercolour and pastel. Sean Scully is one of the most important painters of his generation, whose work is held in major museum collections around the world.
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