Sean Scully Reveals the Power of Abstract Art
bit.ly - The artist wants his work to reveal everything all at once.
While creating media to help stimulate GCSE composition, I wondered about combining Steve Reich style minimalism with its visual antithesis, abstract expressionism. I don't know whether others agree, but I always thought Jackson Pollock's drip technique suited minimalism. Mind you, I'm a drummer, so what do I know about music?
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Category: Abstract Art
It’s what you make of it. All artist have there individual interpretation!!! That’s why all of our thumbs prints are different. That’s what makes us unique as artist we are one of a kind. So get over the harsh words!!! And look in the mirror !!!
I get suspicious whenever I hear long winded explanations for art. It always sounds like a lot of HOOPLAAAAA!!!!!
Now go watch the Spongebob Hoopla video
How many times can you paint the same picture and sell it for loads. This guy must piss himself all the way to the bank. I can knock one of his paintings up ijn 20 minutes.please reply if you want to buy one from me
“Kind of thinking that takes you out of context” I like that.
@kukunu
Cubism is to art as Intelligent Design is to critical scientific analysis. Taking pictures of boarded-up doors as a supplement does not make him creative or avant-garde, either. Having taken a look at the corpus of Scully’s works, I simply get no impression that he’s invested any emotion into his work and seems to be taking all contemporary art critics on some post-modernist dick-wagging about the definition of “abstract.”
gilli39 – your comment reveals you must have an IQ below 10
@kukunu I’ve always wondered, is a great painter always a great man?
I’m curious – got nothing to do with Sean Scully
Amazing, he was able to talk for 2 minutes and 6 seconds without saying ANYTHING.
Also, Scully is an unbelievably bad-ass last name.
loved this video , thanks,
your all so full of BS its not even funny. Sean Scully is one of the great painters of our time . why don’t you just shut da EFF up and listen and go do whatever else there is for you to do. no cares about YOUR opinions about what a great man has to say. youre all little blips in life. get on with your own personal blippery.
@notandywarhol: Just because you’re born in a particular country doesn’t necessarily mean you will adopt the accent of that country. Being brought up in a different geographic location is a possibility!
@Wraithofvolsunga
Anyone can “do” art. That’s the fucking point of art.
@kuroshinsen – Just because we do not understand something, it does not mean that it is ‘nonsensical’.
You and/or your art may not make sense to another… but this is no reason not to make art, or to make yourself and your life reflect what is important, or sensible, to you.
As an artist who has worked in both abstract and representational styles, I don’t get the ‘either/or’ attitude. Abstraction is one way to get people to – maybe – LOOK at the image, what is in front of them, and to THINK about it (if only to ask ‘What is it?’)..
Representational images are typically pigeonholed as quickly as the viewer can identify the ‘subject’. Not a Chuck Close fan, but as he says, abstraction allows the artist freedom from the context of subject,
“abstract” art is a euphemism for the artist can’t do art.
what aload of shit!!!!! i mean i do art in college and this drives me mad i hate all this talking about art it is pure shite!!!!!!!!!!
Why does he have an english accent. I thought he was irish born. Besides he’s so over rated like bad rothko copies.
Talking about art or thinking about art ruins the whole experience of it for me. I don’t want to be bogged down by opinion and judgement, I just want to absorb it and become it .When making or viewing art I like to enter the piece as I’m standing in it and slowly becoming part of it.
An abstract answer
@powerplantnl good artists cant explain their art, if they could write it down why would they paint?
yes
Abstract is everything but no time. It should never
express time. Am I right?
What he said deserves neither ridicule nor an explanation. The man is talking about what draws him to abstraction, its particular advantage over a realism.
ridiculous, nonsensical
@Mihangeliago I wonder why you are not interested in knowing what is particularly amazing about it. Why is the adjective stupid interesting for you to dig deeper and amazing is not? I believe you are into artistic teaching and I find this biased interest of you very disappointing in that sense.
Maybe that’s why in facebook there’s like button but no dislike button. Cause if you disliked sth, you should ‘comment’ why.
@BlazedLineMedia YES JONTY!!!
nice work…..
You’re very kind, thank you.
I welcome your response, however clarification would help. What is particularly stupid about it? I ask because, as a teacher, this would be a question I would ask my students, and this piece was created as an example of work that young people could do themselves. Of course if you simply hate it as it isn’t to your taste that’s fine. I am not holding it up as a work of creative genius. On the contrary, my original comments say that it took me about an hour to create!
Thanks very much.
Simplicity is key,
great job!
this is not something abstract, this is something stupid. period
music alone wouldn’t be such interesting, but with this artwork its so amazing
watch?v=ZhgYCrtxqqg
The music seems to be built on a B minor chord.
I like the simplicity of it.
hey this musical composition is amazing and the artwork is really creative! im taking music gcse and this is my 2nd year. we have to create a minimalist composition and im absolutely hopeless! i know it is your work but if you could send me the music (written out on a computer file or something) for this piece i would be eternally grateful! thanks
Can’t really remember that there were any settings – I just messed around with the website. Sorry I can’t be of more help. Perhaps if you check out the program on the Jackson Pollock website or contact them they may be able to help you. Regards M
What where your paint settings
@Mihangeliago keepin it minimal.
Closely listen to an Inception dvd made before the January 8thTucson shooting, especially around, “‘Do It.”
In 1480, Leonardo da Vinci produced the world’s first, and only, visual musical equivalent. This is what enabled art to acquire the title of “Art.” This visual music contains a mathematical syntax. Experiencing of this syntax requires a developed cognitive capability. A prerequisite to this is a person’s ability to cognize “space.” We can actually “see” this ability degenerating from 1480 to 1880, with the introduction of Picasso, and the elimination of “intelligence” in and of “Art.”
@Team7one8 Music that is made with minimal resources to get your point across. It’s pretty self-explanatory.
Would you consider this music Experimental music? If not, do you know of any good experimental musicians?
can someone explain minimalism like what is it exactly
que cagada
@Mihangeliago I adore it.
@Mihangeliago Consider THX 1138. Isolation with revolving sound and complimentary imagary to a more efficient and compact civilization might be useful for the purposes of minimal, effective stimulation.
Consider THX 1138. Isolation with revolving sound and complimentary imagary to a more efficient and compact civilization might be useful for the purposes of minimal, effective stimulation.
Consider THX 1138. Isolation with revolving sound and complimentary imagary to a more efficient and compact civilization might be useful for the purposes of minimal, effective stimulation.