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Roland David Smith (March 9, 1906 – May 23, 1965) was an influential and innovative American abstract expressionist sculptor and painter, widely known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.
Feb 17, 2023 · David Ballantyne Smith, 58, has admitted passing secret information to the Russian authorities. He was caught in an undercover sting operation in which fake Russian agents offered him the...
May 19, 2024 · David Smith was an American sculptor whose pioneering welded metal sculpture and massive painted geometric forms made him the most original American sculptor in the decades after World War II. His work greatly influenced the brightly coloured “primary structures” of Minimal art during the 1960s.
Organized on the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, David Smith: A Centennial presents over 120 of his greatest sculptures, as well as a selection of his drawings and sketchbooks, from his entire 33-year career as a sculptor.
YSP presents a major exhibition of over 40 works by the pioneering and highly influential American artist David Smith (1906-1965).Widely hailed as one of the...
David Smith pulled off probably the biggest result in the North East in 2024’s General Election when he won the North Northumberland seat. The former charity boss overturned a majority of more ...
Jan 1, 2006 · David Smith is one of American art’s great apostles of freedom. He spoke about it, wrote about it, and embodied it in his life and art. He refused to be confined by rules or any other boundaries, did not let anyone else dictate to him what was aesthetically acceptable, was ever-alert to unorthodox materials and new ways of working.
The two kinds of drawing which Smith explored in his mature work, drawing silhouetted against the support of a ground and the self-sustaining drawing with found objects, unexpectedly coalesce in the last, and for many, the greatest series of Smith’s career.
Oct 6, 2022 · Brenson’s biography, David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor, has a title that suggests grandness, admiration, and ego stroking. But what is contained within its pages is...
DAVID SMITH. By Jane Harrison Cone. WHEN DAVID SMITH DIED, one was made to realize the extent to which a single man had carried and extended the tradition of non-monolithic sculpture that derives ultimately from Cubist collage. His career spanned over thirty years, during which time he produced well over five hundred sculptures.
