| Sean Scully is an uncommonly direct painter, especially when his work is considered
in relation to the theoretical and ironic conceptions of art that prevailed
during the 1960s and 1970s, the formative period of his career. His primary
tools and
materials—oil paint, stretched canvas, and housepainters’ brushes—are
traditional and, in the case of the brushes, even commonplace, their ordinariness
suggesting closer ties with wall painting and building construction than with
the history of art. . . .
:: Jonathan P. Binstock, Curator of Contemporary Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art |
Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from
the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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