How have experts described Hughie Lee-Smith's most important style of work?

Answer 1

Some art experts have described Hughie Lee-Smith's style as a "unique... ability to fuse the black experience in America with his own brand of surrealism" (from encyclopedia.com)

More pointed is how the artist incorporates the Americanexperience, especially as to how it pertains to the existential relationship between African Americans and whites, a symbiosis that has often defined the direction and the focus of the country, of the very principles of democracy itself.

Lee-Smith acknowledges this special push-pull effect between the races through an intellectual, 20th century prism that reflects the two races' shared inner conflicts and fears born of racism and its natural ramifications. He expresses this reflection from time to time in the frequent placement of non-interactive African American and white figures in an austere, barren ambiance that lends itself to the idea of alienation, a descriptive attribute popularly ascribed to his work by reviewers and art critics. His very personal interpretation of the inner examination of race relations in turn, and perhaps necessarily(?) imparts a surreal aspect to his canvases.

The fusing of the two races in a tandem experience makes his style, his message much more universal than a localized "black experience" only.