David Smith (1906-1965) was an American sculptor. Cubes and Anarchy is a new exhibition held at the Whitney museum until January 8, 2012. Smith uses steel geometric shapes to sculpt with. Smith's Cubi and Zig sculptures from the 60's were not seen from him because he was considered a Surrealist and Expressionist. Cubes and Anarchy reveals the artists late works. The show includes over 60 sculptures, drawings, and paintings, and well as rarely seen sketchbooks and photographs. My favorite piece of the show was Cubi I, It makes me want to climb it. I love how it looks unstable as if its about to topple over and how the small circle at the bottom is holding the whole thing up. His pieces remind of African art in a way because it is so geometric. I also like how his pieces with out color such as the Cubi I still have some type of color to it, maybe it’s the way the lights hit it but they are not just the silver steel color, they have different tones of gray as well. I can appreciate why this exhibition is called Cubes and Anarchy especially because of this piece. This piece obviously has cubes but the "anarchy" of the piece is that the cubes aren’t stable it makes you feel as if they could fall in any minute. Another way to look at the "anarchy" of the work is that the circle is holding up 6 cubes that vary in sizes, which makes no sense.
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