Wednesday after class I went with a classmate to tour through the exhibition of David Smith. As a 'gearhead', I found the use of metal and the industrial nature of his works to be very interesting and pleasing for the most part. My favorite pieces were large in nature and involved bare stainless steel where Smith had taken some sort of abrasion wheel and scoured the metal surface. At first I thought it rather stupid, but as I walked around the piece I found that the reflections seemed to move in a non-predictable oscillating pattern and in a fashion follow my eyes around the piece.
As a whole I enjoyed Smith's exhibition, the only things I felt were out of place involved the canvas paint-spatter works that he created. They seemed out of place in the hard, tactile company of the metal structures but as we were informed this exhibition is by no means an inclusive display of his work and therefore I can only speculate what techniques dominated his works.
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