SMITH, David

On the one hand drawing upon his training as a painter who had assimilated Cubist lessons of diverse planes and ABstract imagery and, on the other, upon his experience on the assembly line of an automobile plant, Smith produced sculpture that measured its distance from the past by rejecting the traditions of modeling (carving the semblance of an extrinsic image out of a block of material) and representational space and proportion. The innovative equal of Alexander Calder , Smith assembled...