Anthony Peter Smith 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.
Throwback (3-3), 1976–1979
Light Up, 1974, outside the Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh
TAU, located in Smith's home town of South Orange. The sculpture is an example of the bold, angular shapes Smith used in the early 1960s.
The Fourth Sign, 1977, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt and Frank Stella. The movement is often interpreted as a reaction against abstract expressionism and modernism; it anticipated contemporary postminimal art practices, which extend or reflect on minimalism's original objectives.
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Image: SANAA, Zollverein School of Management and Design, Essen (4606034520)
Image: Kazimir Malevich, 1915, Black Suprematic Square, oil on linen canvas, 79.5 x 79.5 cm, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Tony Smith, Free Ride, 1962, 6'8 x 6'8 x 6'8
