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  • Mystic space
    Smith, David; Dunne, Aidan

    Irish arts review (2002), 12/2021, Volume: 38, Issue: 4
    Journal Article

    Dunne profiles artist David Smith, whose paintings have something of the quality of recollections or memories; more literally and materially, they recall vintage photographs. Usually quite small in scale, they nonetheless evoke large vistas. Often close to monochromatic in appearance and tonally subdued, as though viewed through a filter, they are in fact richly, subtly colored. While it is fair to say that so far Smith is primarily a painter, he has also worked consistently with photography, film and music with, as he reports, no sense of contradiction or disruption. Early on, he thought there might be some friction or difficulty between painting and photography and film. In the event, that never materialized.