Richard Smith

Richard Smith (1931, 2016) was a British painter associated with the Pop Art movement who developed a distinctive practice that merged abstraction with commercial imagery and packaging aesthetics. He was known for his shaped canvases and three-dimensional works that pushed the boundaries of painting into sculptural territory, often incorporating kite-like forms stretched across unconventional supports. Smith was a pivotal figure in the transatlantic dialogue between British and American art in the 1960s and 1970s, exhibiting widely and winning the Grand Prize at the 1966 Venice Biennale.