Photo

Tags

  • twentieth century
  • art
  • printing
  • painting
  • art painting contemporary abstract text
  • abstract

Tags are used to help other users find this artist

Jack Smith

Genres: Printing, Painting, Art
Jack Smith is one of those unsung figures in British art whose artistic career represents something like a synecdoche of art's development over the course of the Twentieth Century.

From his early realist dabblings to formal Kandinskian exercises and eventually to his recent flatly graphic work, Smith's is the kind of career characterised by a pleasing sense of progression.

Like Kandinsky (and indeed many others) Smith sees music as the pinnacle of creative expression and one sees his work become increasingly abstract as a means of escaping the constraints of representation.

We don't know about any upcoming events featuring Jack Smith. Do you know one we've missed? Contact us

Tom posted on Tue 29 Jul
Tags: art painting contemporary abstract text
Jack Smith is kind of like a British Kandinsky who was always just a wee bit behind the pioneering Russian.

I went to see the retrospective at Flowers East the other day and i really like most of his stuff even though my friends said he was boring. I think if you were pretty loaded his work would be cool to hang in your house.