Jack Smith 1928 – 2011

The New Yorker

8小時 · 

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.

參考翻譯

A Life’s Work in a Storage Unit

Jack Smith’s art and ephemera are seeing the light of day after being hidden away for decades.

NYR.KR|由 EMMA ALLEN 上傳

Jack Smith (18 June 1928 – 11 June 2011) was a British realist and, later, abstract artist.^[1]

Contents

  [hide] 

• 1 Life
• 2 Work
• 3 Recognition
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Life[edit]

Jack Smith was born in 1928 in Sheffield, Yorkshire.

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 Minton, Ruskin 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.