David Smith
David Smith (1906-1965) is a American Sculpteur , member of the movement abstract expressionnist. He was well-known for his great abstract sculptures with the rigorous geometrical forms made out of steel inoxidables (the Cubis ).
He was born on March 9th, 1906 in Decatur, in the Indiana. He began from academic works in Ohio, but gave up to become welder in an automobile factory. This technique of the welding which it then acquired was its principal means of expression when he became sculptor.
It left for New York in 1927 with the intention to be a painter and discovered then works of Picasso, Mondrian, Kandinsky, and bound friendship with Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. It was directed finally towards ls sculpture, working to assemble metals of recovery. He learned also the technique from the forging mill, enabling him to modify the metal parts and either simply to assemble them.
In 1950, the financial support of the foundation Solomon R. Guggenheim enabled him to be devoted full-time to the sculpture. It was then very prolific.
It is deceased in May 1965 in an car accident in the Vermont, close to Bennington.
The MoMA (Museum off Modern Art, New York) presented in 1957 a retrospective of its works, and went up in 1961 a road show David Smith. It was the object into 2006 of a retrospective exposure to the Musée Guggenheim of New York, with the National center of art and culture Georges-Pompidou and with Tate Modern.
Not to confuse with the former deputy of the PLC of the district of Pontiac.
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