Dying Day
2007
Dying Day
2007
From the very beginning of his career in the mid-Seventies, the painter Sean Scully has chiefly focused on the relationship between horizontal and vertical rhythms. For him, they sum up the world, because all life is above all a question of relationships. An Irishman like Samuel Beckett, his work originates in an economy of means, like the writer's. Exploring an abstraction that is both rigorous and sensitive, he creates a system where rectangular blocks lie alongside and gently collide against each other in a regular stream. The only things varying the relationships of the blocks are their size, direction and colour. Here the rhythm is almost symmetrical, and the colour relationships lie within the same values – grey, black and ochre, scarcely interrupted by the presence of three red rectangles, which dominate and subtly undermine the balance of the wall.
Domain | Peinture |
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Techniques | Huile sur lin |
Dimensions | 280 x 350 cm |
Acquisition | Don des American Friends of the Centre Pompidou, 2020 (Don de Marcia Dunn et Jonathan Sobel à la Centre Pompidou Foundation, 2009) |
Inventory no. | AM 2020-419 |
Detailed description
Artist |
Sean Scully
(1945, Irlande) |
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Main title | Dying Day |
Creation date | 2007 |
Domain | Peinture |
Techniques | Huile sur lin |
Dimensions | 280 x 350 cm |
Acquisition | Don des American Friends of the Centre Pompidou, 2020 (Don de Marcia Dunn et Jonathan Sobel à la Centre Pompidou Foundation, 2009) |
Collection area | Arts Plastiques - Contemporain |
Inventory no. | AM 2020-419 |