“..Considered to be pure paintings, Smith's works are viewed as extreme in the fact that they do not deal with anything other than the movement of paint across a ...

Two young painters register strongly. Smith crowds the pictorial rectangle to bursting with very broad, slow, overlapping strokes in insinuating colors. He also pours liquid plastic over large ...

Brendon Smith came from nowhere to emerge as gold medal threat in the men's 400m individual medley, then did it again in the final to swoop for bronze; Australia first medal of the Tokyo Olympics.