Sean Scully. Die Architektur der Farbe = The Architecture of Colour

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Sean Scully , an Irish-born American painter has been a focus of attention in international painting for more than thirty years. He has produced a vibrant and compelling body of work that is widely collected and internationally exhibited. He has persistently held his own course and countless exhibitions all over the world testify to his creative powers and the force of his painting, which is in the tradition of Classical Modernism, ascribing particularly great importance to the expressiveness of colour itself. This book outlines and highlights the continuous development of Scully's oeuvre, from its beginnings in the late 1960s to the present day, with particular reference to the inherent structural qualities of colour itself. The internationally known works which Scully has produced since the 1980s are thereby linked with his almost unknown early works. What actually constitutes the essential links in the last four decades is the artist's exploration of colour and its particular capacity to fulfil s