Anthony Smith Jr.
Abstract Narrative Painting
Category: …from the Red Wrath World
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The Red Wrath World is a conceptual framework for the style of work I make. It’s the place where my abstraction lives. This style emerged from an artistic crisis I faced in graduate school. I decided that the paintings I did in the beginning of school weren’t working so I began to doodle with black…
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In my early professional development as an artist I faced a crisis of confidence in my approach to creating art. I entered graduate school as a landscape painter. After receiving advice that my works did not emerge from an authentic source, (I painted idyllic landscape full of full rich cloudscapes), I decided to explore abstraction.…