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Kenneth Kemble Smith (1923-1998) was an Argentinian artist and art critic best known for being one of the leading figures in Argentinian informalism, his collages, large scale paintings and his contribution to South American avant garde art with his Arte Destructivo (1961) exhibition in which him and other contemporary artists of the likes of Antonio Seguí, Jorge López Anaya, Luis Wells, Silvia Torras, Jorge Roiger and Enrique Ballinari got together and made this exhibition with the aim of seeing art from another point of view and creating from destruction, they made a manifesto which further explains their point of view.

Early Life and Education
He was born in Buenos Aires the 10th of July 1923 and was the son of an an English immigrant and a German-Argentinian mother. He lived his early years in Buenos Aires and started his painting studies at the Raúl Russo and Rafael Oneto ateliers. in 1951 he moved to Paris and studied during three years with André Lothe. He also attends the Grande Chaumiére and Ranson Academy, where Gustave Singier and Roger Chaster taught. During this time he also frequents the sculptor Ossip Zadkine´s workshop.