DETAIL : Sean SCULLY Ireland 1945  Robe figure, 2003 2003 Painting oil on canvas
 
 
Sean SCULLY | Mooseurach floating paintings

 
SCULLY, Sean
Ireland 1945
to Great Britain 1949, to United States of America 1975
Mooseurach floating paintings 2001-2003
painting
oil on metal
sheet 81.0 (h) x 40.0 (w) x 20.0 (d) cm
Private collection
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If you choose the fine arts, you are left with an object. If you choose the martial arts, you are left with a memory. What I try to do is take this knowledge, this way of being which Karate embraces, and put it into my paintings … Life is banal until it is invested with a commitment and painting and karate are no different from anything else in that respect. The forms which I use in my painting, the stripes, may appear to be banal, but they are given another life when the body and the intellect and the emotions are harnessed together.

Sean Scully, cited in Paul Bonaventura, ‘It’s all a question of intensity’,
Sean Scully (exhibition catalogue), London: Waddington Galleries, 1992, n.p.

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