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Barbara Lee Smith
Barbara Lee Smith (born 1 April 1938) is an American mixed media artist, writer, educator, and curator. She creates large scale landscapes and abstract works using a three step process of painting, collage, and machine stitching. Early life Barbara Lee Smith was born in Camden, New Jersey and grew up in nearby Cape May, New Jersey, Cape May. Her early interests included music, embroidery and the work of Jackson Pollock who she was first exposed to in a 1949 ''Life'' magazine article. Smith majored in home economics at Douglass College (then the women's college of Rutgers University). She married soon after graduating in 1959 and, as a young wife and mother, lived on Long Island, Long Island, New York and then in Levittown, New York. In Levittown she had easy access to New York City where art exhibitions, most notably a Wassily Kandinsky, Kandinsky show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum, made an impact. During this period she taught herself machine embroider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixed Media
In visual art, mixed media describes artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed. Assemblages, collages, and sculpture are three common examples of art using different media. Materials used to create mixed media art include, but are not limited to, paint, cloth, paper, wood and found objects. Mixed media art is distinguished from multimedia art which combines visual art with non-visual elements, such as recorded sound, literature, drama, dance, motion graphics, music, or interactivity. History of mixed media The first modern artwork to be considered mixed media is Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...'s 1912 collage ''Still Life with Chair Caning'', which used paper, cloth, paint and rope to create a pseudo-3D effect. The in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
