Famous Taos portrait painter, Jack Smith reveals the strength and authenticity of faces. He has been nicknamed the American Lucian Freud for his candid and energetic interpretation of the human. Following the solo exhibition “Jack Smith: Taos Portraits” at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, his paintings are entering national ...

"More than almost any artist of the last century Jack Smith understood that within the prevailing cultures of success, art’s greatest role may have been to provide provision for public failure. To this end his actors and accomplices, props and lighting, drugs and desires were invariably wrong: wrong before the performance had started ...

Mar 26, 2018 · Masterful and modern, yet steeped in tradition, Jack makes art that transcends trends and fashion; these works on paper, canvas and metal will surely stand the test of time.

Sep 16, 1989 · Smith’s slides, films, and performances were sampled; a wall was cluttered with his graphic work (a few sketches and collages, a fumetto, but mainly Wite-Out-enriched pasteups for posters and publicity flyers). Jack Smith, Normal Love, …

View Jack Smith’s 153 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, works on paper, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist.

Entering Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis—the recent survey of Jack Smith’s work at Artists Space curated by Jay Sanders and Jamie Stevens – one is greeted by Smith’s iconic hollow-throated voice reading one of his many diatribes about the plight …

Jun 2, 2021 · Jack Smith was a visionary American filmmaker, photographer and avant-garde performance artist. Smith was able to get his co-travelers to believe in the transformative dimensions of his singular art events, adopting lowly, discarded film materials, in other words trash, marginal people and seemingly marginal subjects, to provide the grounds for ...

Artist Smith achieved critical recognition through his association with the Kitchen Sink movement, the urban realist style that dominated painting in Britain from the early to mid-1950s. Together with Derrick Greaves, John Bratby and Edward Middleditch, he …

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Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer.