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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.
Oct 6, 2011 · A fresh look at the work of the great American sculptor David Smith (1906–1965), Cubes and Anarchy offers new insights into the artist’s career-long involvement with geometric forms. Traditionally, the simplified geometry of Smith's monumental Cubi and Zig sculptures of the 1960s has been seen as a departure from the Surrealist and ...
David Smith was born in Decatur, Indiana, in 1906. His mother was a school teacher and a devout Methodist; his father was a telephone engineer and part-time inventor, who fostered in his son a reverence for machinery. After his family moved to Paulding, Ohio, in 1921, Smith developed an interest in art, taking a correspondence course in drawing ...
Artist Bio. “Sculpture is as free as the mind, as complex as life.” —David Smith. Sculptor David Smith is known for his fierce independence and his pervasive influence over modern and contemporary art. Similar to the abstract expressionists, Smith internalized cubist painting composition and the psychosocial implications of surrealism ...
Oct 6, 2022 · October 6, 2022 9:00am. David Smith, Fish, 1950–51, in the artist's 2006 Tate Modern retrospective. Photo Cathal McNaughton/PA Images via Getty Images. You can’t judge an artist biography by ...
Cubi VII. 1963. David Smith was among the first American artists to master the use of steel and other industrial materials. After many years of working metal into evocative linear compositions, he forged a new, formal language for sculpture through increased focus on shape, volume, surface, and structure. Cubi VII is part of a series executed ...
