2015年8月27日 星期四

Jack Smith 1928 – 2011


Andy Warhol once described Jack Smith as “the only person I would ever copy.” His photos and films, packed away in cardboard boxes after his death, are being restored and put on display.
Jack Smith’s art and ephemera are seeing the light of day after being hidden away for decades.
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Jack Smith (18 June 1928 – 11 June 2011) was a British realist and, later, abstract artist.[1]

Life[edit]

Jack Smith was born in 1928 in SheffieldYorkshire.
Smith studied at Sheffield College of Art (1944–1946), Saint Martin's School of Art (1948–1950) and the Royal College of Art (1950–1953).[2] At the RCA, Smith studied underJohn MintonRuskin Spear and Carel Weight.[3]

Work[edit]

During the 1950s, Smith's early work was in a neo-realist style known as "The Kitchen Sink School" featuring domestic subjects.
In the 1960s Smith abandoned realism and adopted a brightly coloured, abstract style comparable to those of Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian incorporating Constructivismand Biomorphism with elements of hieroglyphic and musical notation.[4] Smith continued to develop and work in this style and did not return to realism.

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