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Tony Smith (23 de septiembre de 1912 – 26 de diciembre de 1980) fue un escultor norteamericano, artista de las artes visuales, y un destacado teórico del arte. Tony Smith nació en South Orange, Nueva Jersey.
Tony Smith (23 de septiembre, 1912 – 26 de diciembre, 1980) fue un escultor norteamericano, artista de las artes visuales, y un destacado teórico del arte. Tony Smith nació en South Orange, Nueva Jersey.
Anthony Peter Smith (September 23, 1912 – December 26, 1980) was an American sculptor, visual artist, architectural designer, and a noted theorist on art. He is often cited as a pioneering figure in American Minimalist sculpture.
The American artist Tony Smith occupies an important place in the history of twentieth-century art and design. Born in 1912 in South Orange, New Jersey, he is best known for his large-scale sculptures—inventive polygonal forms made of steel, most painted black—of the 1960s and ’70s.
Uno de los mejores escultores abstractos de finales del siglo XX, el artista, diseñador arquitectónico, pintor y teórico del arte estadounidense Tony Smith fue una figura pionera en Arte minimalista, siendo conocido en particular por sus grandes esculturas geométricas, muchas de las cuales estaban ubicadas al aire libre.
A prolific sculptor and painter, Tony Smith contributed much to the birth of Minimalism in the 1960s. Yet he was an anomalous figure, always occupying a slightly peripheral position in relation to the movements with which he was associated, and only exhibiting as an artist from his fifties onwards.
Like the Minimalist artists who emerged alongside him in the early 1960s, Smith favored geometric shapes and impersonal surfaces, and was alert to the artwork's exchange with the space around it; but he was actually a contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists, and unlike the Minimalists he worked intuitively.
