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Sir Matthew Smith (1879-1959)
Aliases: Mathew Smith; Matthew Smith; Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith
Professions: Act painter; Painter; Landscape painter; Porträtmaler
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SIR MATTHEW SMITH 1879-1959
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SIR MATTHEW SMITH 1879-1959
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Sir Matthew Smith , Still Life with Fruit on a Tazza Oil
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SIR MATTHEW SMITH 1879-1959
Sir Matthew Smith Biography
(b halifax, w. yorks, 22 oct 1879; d london, 29 sept 1959). english painter. he was interested in painting and drawing from an early age and studied art at manchester college of technology (1901–5) and the slade school of fine art in london (1905–8) without, however, showing particular promise. he moved to france late in 1908, and in etaples and pont-aven he painted still-lifes and portraits that are intimist in manner, showing attention to local colour and modelling (e.g. portrait of a young boy , 1908; priv. col., see 1983 barbican a.g. exh. cat., p. 9). he settled in paris and exhibited several of these works at the salon des indépendants before beginning to build more ambitious compositions using related and contrasting colours. these show the influence of fauvism and of matisse, whose studio he attended briefly in 1910. he also made an intensive study of ingres, whose work retained particular significance for him. in canvases painted between 1914 and 1920, when he joined the london group, he acknowledged the flatness of the picture surface with areas of strong unmodulated colour and emphatic design. fitzroy street nude no. 1 (1916; london, tate) is characteristic in the tension created not only through a bold use of complementary colours—the green shadows of the nude against a vibrant red ground—but also in the contrast between direct observation from the model and the blatant artifice of his colour and exaggerated drawing. in 1920, partly under the influence of roderic o’conor’s views of brittany, which he had first seen the previous year, smith applied dark saturated colour and an increasing fluidity of construction to a series of cornish landscapes (e.g. winter landscape, cornwall (swansea, vivian a.g. & mus.)). strongly expressionist in character, these are the culmination of his early style.
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Sir Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith L.G. (1879-1959)
