Episode 44: Sean Scully: “Landline Blue See”

Experience the beauty and energy of the natural world through the evocative paintings, “Landline” by abstract painter Sean Scully; vertical compositions of horizontal stripes, elements of a landscape stacked one atop of another in pure color!

Sean Scully: “Landline Blue See,” 2016
Image Credit: Wadsworth Atheneum
https://www.thewadsworth.org/
I also discuss the photograph, “Landline, 1999” by Sean Scully–you can see my reflection in the image, a amateur photo! The photograph does offer insight into the ways Scully experiences and sees landscape and how it developed a visual vocabulary for his Landline paintings.