Tony Smith lived from 1912-1980. Tony Smith said, “one has to experience art, not just stand in front of it.” Smith's work has more shape. He still is using the language of geometry, but his work blends the aspects of the scale of architecture; you could work in, around it, and through it, as well as sculpture. One of Tony Smith's well-known pieces is called Die. From 1962, it is steel with an oil finish, and it's exactly 6x6x6. Three versions are made. It defies its heaviness, its solidity by being slightly elevated off the floor, with an indented base. When Smith was a child, he had tuberculosis and his parents set up for him a little room. They had a room built in their backyard and he had a medical nurse that would come and bring his medications every day, and he recovered. But he remembered having a lot of downtime, and the medicine that he had to take would come in a little cardboard box. He would end up playing with them while waiting. At a formative age, he was around a lot of geometry, and treated it like origami with folds and making different shapes.
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