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During the course of his thirty-five-year career, David Smith produced an extraordinary amount of work spanning many approaches: painting, sculptures, drawings, etchings, lithographs, jewelry, ceramics, and photographs. In addition, he wrote extensive accounts of how he saw his art.
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.
Song of the Landscape. David Smith was the sculptor most closely associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement. While in college, he worked one summer as a welder at an automobile factory, where his understanding and love for industrial materials and techniques took root.
DS 1958 is one of the first studies of this type to be made and displays Smith's experimentation with different media. Here, he sprays metallic paint over the enamel for a shimmering painterly effect; subsequent spray drawings used only matte paint.
19 de may. de 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.
By Rosalind Krauss. IN 1951 DAVID SMITH MADE Hudson River Landscape and The Banquet. Shallow, rectilinear, weblike, their flat facades knifing across the viewer’s line of sight—these sculptures were radically unlike the human body with its density and its upright verticality.
24 de jun. de 2023 · In the spirit of that inaugural event, Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music, and Dance will feature two graceful, vertical sculptures from later in Smith’s career measuring up to twelve feet tall, that poetically evoke the essence of music, dance, and nature.
