Ray Smith: Works

by Richard Vine and Ray Campbell Smith

Surrealist and Animist influences from Ray Smith's Latin heritage are as present as his deep study of modern art in these engaging, poetic paintings. Of the mingling of species on his canvases, he has said that his animals are "entities of the human figure beasts, but directly related to a blueprint of our own existence." Works looks back on the artist's lineage, both national and artistic, and appropriates Picasso's dark Catalonian menagerie,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8434310929
• ISBN13: 9788434310926
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 4.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.7" x 11.6"