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. Born in Decatur, Indiana, Smith initially pursued painting, receiving training at the Art Students League in New York from 1926 to 1930.

2012年3月9日 · David Smith is considered by many to be the most important American sculptor of his generation. He was certainly the first to work in metal, and was singular in his ability to synthesize the influences of Surrealism and Cubism into a new, highly personal and yet distinctively American sculptural style.

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 …

Celebrated for his pioneering incorporation of industrial techniques into his practice, Smith's enlistment of nature as a material and prime setting for sculpture was equally innovative. Spanning Smith's full career, the exhibition features some 40 sculptures, along with related paintings, reliefs, and works on paper to reclaim the primacy of ...

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. Born in Decatur, Indiana, Smith initially pursued painting, receiving training at the Art Students League in New York from 1926 to 1930.

By the early 1930s, Smith had begun to incorporate found objects such as shells, bones, wood, and wire into his paintings, adding depth and transforming them into sculptural reliefs. Soon thereafter he began constructing welded steel sculptures, and it …

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. Born in Decatur, Indiana, Smith initially pursued painting, receiving training at the Art Students League in New York from 1926 to 1930.

2011年10月6日 · 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, who would become one of the most influential and innovative American sculptors of the twentieth century, was born in Decatur, Indiana, in 1906. His mother was a schoolteacher and devout Methodist; his father was a telephone engineer and part-time inventor, who fostered in his son a reverence for machinery.

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, taking on the humanist pursuits of art focused on primordial themes of life, death, and ...