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At the mother-in-law's exit, the distraught son-in-law appears and explains that the old lady is mad. Her daughter died four years before, and the woman kept in the apartment is his second wife. He acts as he does to preserve the mother-in-law...
In the mid-forties, Smith explored this illusionary effect of two dimensionality in a new way with a small welded piece called Head as Figure. Here, Smith made three planar compositions and put them together at right angles. By visual association, the flatness of each of these three units gives...
This tendency is devleoped further in the Cubi series in which Smith adds the use of surfaces in shadow to suggest two dimensional shading. The elaborate buffing in Cubi XXVIII emphasizes the surface instead of the volume, and the sculpture gives an illusionary effect of two dimensionality. This effect is...
The Wagons, which Smith undertook at the end of his life, have a more playful quality than most of his previous sculptures. The wheels and the lightness of the forms add a greater sensation of motion. But these pieces also attempt to maintain the planar illusion of Smith's previous...
Smith's interest in the illusion of two dimensionality in three dimensional space unifies his sculpture. The lack of uniformity in his formal style only adds to his interest, and combined with his exhuberance and inventiveness, it makes him one of the most exciting sculptors of his generation