![]() ![]() Then I saw strips of wool, dyed and hanging on bars and drying in the sun, all of these fabulous colors straights out of the earth made with vegetable dyes, very close to black and reds, orange, blue.” One kind of a djellaba that men walk around in is for daily use and is made of dark brown and cream vertical stripes, and they are very beautiful, when they are hanging, when they are worn, when they are folded. He commented in a 2007 interview with Brian Kennedy that during his trip to Morocco he “immediately noticed people walking around in these “ djellabas“. These were later used by artisans in rug weaving. Scully’s interest in stripes comes from a 1969 trip to Morocco where he saw strips of color-dyed wool, some six inches wide by almost eight feet long. It’s never uniform, It’s never a simple pattern on a simple surface. Some are made up of wood blocks of varying depths, joined together, or strips of canvas mounted one next to the other. Instead, they are usually soft fields of paint floating next to each other. The very first time you see a Sean Scully‘s painting you are usually surprised to discover that it’s not a single canvas with clean, organized stripes. “The stripe is a signifier of modernism.”
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