Crystalline structures and the concept of entropy became of interest to him and informed a number of sculptures completed during this period, including Alogon 2, (1966) composed of ten units, the title of which refers to the Greek word for an unnamable, irrational number. His wall-mounted sculpture Enantiomorphic Chambers was made of steel and mirrors and created the optical effect of a "pointless vanishing-point". His new work abandoned the preoccupation with the body that had been common in his earlier work, and he began to use glass sheet and neon lighting tubes to explore visual refraction and mirroring. Īfter a break from the art world, Smithson reemerged in 1964 as a proponent of the minimalist movement. Paintings from 1959 to 1962 explored "mythical religious archetypes" and were also based on Dante's Divine Comedy such as the paintings from 1959 Wall of Dis and The Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise, that correspond to the Divine Comedy's three-part structure. He produced drawings and collage works that incorporated images from natural history, science fiction films, classical art, religious iconography, and pornography including " homoerotic clippings from beefcake magazines". He primarily identified as a painter during this time, and his early exhibited artworks had a wide range of influences, including science fiction, Catholic art and Pop art. He studied painting and drawing in New York City at the Art Students League of New York from 1954 to 1956 and then briefly at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. When Smithson was nine, his family moved to the Allwood section of Clifton. In Rutherford, the poet and physician William Carlos Williams was Smithson's pediatrician. Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and spent his childhood in Rutherford until he was nine. He was one of the founders of the land art movement whose best known work is the Spiral Jetty (1970). His work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and museums and is held in public collections. Robert Smithson (Janu– July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts. Horst P.Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty in 2004, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah.Käthe Kollwitz, In Memoriam Karl Liebknecht.Meret Oppenheim, Object (Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon).Alberto Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m.René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe).Surrealist Techniques: Subversive Realism.Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany.Dada’s “Aproximate Man”: A Portrait of Tristan Tzara (1919) by Marcel Janco.Raoul Hausmann, Spirit of the Age: Mechanical Head.Max Ernst, Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale.The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass).Art as concept: In Advance of the Broken Arm.Giorgio de Chirico, The Soothsayer’s Recompense.Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli.Gino Severini, Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin.Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.De Stijl, Part III: The Total De Stijl Environment.De Stijl, Part II: Near-Abstraction and Pure Abstraction.Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare.Amedeo Modigliani, Young Woman in a Shirt.
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