Critics on Hepworth

Question 1

(Tate Director) Maria Balshaw on Hepworth…

Answer 1

… ‘an elemental quality that places humanity within nature.’

Question 2

Hepworths perspective on the relationship between nature and the artist:

Answer 2

‘she believed that ‘the artist should be part of the landscape’

Question 3

in an interview hepworth described her work as…

Answer 3

‘Every sculpture is… either a figure I see, or a sensation I have, whether in Yorkshire, Cornwall or Greece, or the Mediterranean’

Question 4

Hepworths main forms that have stood out to her since childhood

Answer 4

‘The standing form… ‘two forms’… and closed forms’

all of which amalgamate the human spirit with landscape, she described it like the repose between a mother and child, an embrace, one living beside the other.

Question 5

What sensations did Hepworth believe were essential in communicating sculpture through its relation to the human scale…

Answer 5

‘our sense of touch (is a fundamnetal sensibility which comes into action at birth’

and

‘stereognostic sense’
(‘as the ability to feel weight and form and assess its significance’)

Question 6

Rachel Smith on Hepworth said..

Answer 6

That Hepworht linked both ‘standing form’ and ‘closed form’ to the experience of landscape.

‘impled a figure which is affected by these postures, motions or frames’

Question 7

Hepworth (herself) on carving process…

Answer 7

‘carving is more interesting than modelling… (you have an) unlimited variety of materials from which to draw inspiration’
… ‘material demands particular treatmemt’
… ‘it would be possible to carve the same subject in a different stone each time, throughout life, without repitition of form.’

Question 8

Barry Flanagan…