1988
pastel
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1988 pastel by Sean Scully, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting shows three thick black rectangles stacked like walls, with a single rusty-brown strip in the middle. The colors are mostly gray, black, and that one warm brown band. The edges are rough, almost like the artist dragged the pastel across the paper. The brown strip looks like it’s peeking through a gap—maybe a window or a door. The rest feels heavy and closed off, but that one color breaks it open. Try looking up pastel to see how artists use soft sticks of color like crayons.
Sean Scully (born 30 June 1945) is an Irish-born American-based artist working as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer.
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