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Systems of Clarity

Stripe as structure

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Stripe as structure

ART–OTH–SCU

Stripe as structure

Index Code:

ART–OTH–SCU

Orgin:

Dublin, Ireland / New York, USA

Field Notes:

stripe as structure · color as emotion · geometry as devotion

Defining Moment:

Early 1970s — stripe as structure; form became language

Sean Scully

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b. 1945

)

shawn sku-lee

Scully built a world of emotional geometry.

Broad bands of color press against one another like architecture built from memory.

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In his world, structure is feeling, color a form of prayer.

Structural Focus

Reduction with Atmosphere

Form is reduced without becoming cold or purely rational. Minimal means are used to produce calm, resonance, or emotional density.

In Sean Scully’s work, this approach appears where bands structure rhythm.

Position

Reduction with Atmosphere

Form is reduced without becoming cold or purely rational. Minimal means are used to produce calm, resonance, or emotional density.

In Sean Scully’s work, this approach appears where bands structure rhythm.

Chromatic Fields

Color fields operate as spatial and structural organizers.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Striped Color Field

Repeated bands structure surface through rhythm and interval.

Visual structure is distilled into autonomous, non-representational form.

Observartory

Sean Scully — Stripe Paintings

Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Repetition as calm

Color as structure

In Dialogue

Geometry as empathy