David Smith vs. Naum Gabo
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
David Smith
1906 – 1965
".. ..my heritage was all those things; simultaneously, so I am all those things. I hope with a very strong intellectual regard for Cubism, and an admiration for…"
Naum Gabo
1890 – 1977
Naum Gabo was an influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's post-Revolution avant-garde and the subsequent development of twentieth-century sculpture. His work combined geometric abstraction with a dynamic organization of form in small reliefs and constructions, monumental public sculpture and pioneering kinetic works that assimilated new materials such as nylon, wire, lucite and semi-transparent materials, glass and metal. Responding to the scientific and political revolutions of his age, Gabo led an eventful and peripatetic life, moving to Berlin, Paris, Oslo, Moscow, London, and finally the United States, and within the circles of the major avant-garde movements of the day, including Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, the Bauhaus, de Stijl and the Abstraction-Création group.
"Space and time are the only forms on which life is built and hence art must be constructed... The realisation of our perceptions of the world in the forms of sp…"