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Mar 9, 2012 · David Smith's career encompasses a range of styles, from the figurative expressionism of his early relief sculptures, to the organic abstraction of his Surrealist-influenced work, to the geometric constructions of his later years.
- American
- March 9, 1906
- Decatur, Indiana
- May 23, 1965
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.
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.
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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.
Smith’s earliest work was directly influenced by the welded iron sculpture of both Picasso and Gonzalez. 4 But after the early forties, when the spread of Smith’s exploratory styles began to coalesce into several fairly distinct branches, his work became, to an extraordinary extent, self-referential.
Nov 1, 2006 · Early in his career, Smith was influenced by the work of European sculptors such as Pablo Picasso, Julio González and Alberto Giacometti, assimilating some of their techniques into American sculpture for the first time. By the early 1950s he had developed his own unique vision, which he pursued for nearly 15 years.
The commonly-held picture of Smith during the ’40s and early ’50s as a Surrealist-influenced sculptor is not therefore neutral, but has its own meaning, in that it tends to imply both shared values and shared attitudes toward form.
