Barbara Hepworth in her quotes on sculpture & life in England - free resource, English art history

Barbara Hepworth in quotes - the English woman-artist on her sculpture art & artistic life in England - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in English art history

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Barbara Hepworth’s artist quotes describe her characteristic way of creating abstract sculpture art with Holes!. They inform us moreover about her life in England. Hepworth became famous as modern sculptress for her many abstract ‘Oval’ sculptures, mainly sculpted in stone, by piercing the stone. She explains in her quotes how she got fascinated by this Oval form.

In English Modernism art after World War 2. Hepworth was one of the first sculptors piercing the stone, simultaneously with Henry Moore. This was a new phenomena: to create an interior ànd an exterior spatial dimension in the same sculpture in the same time. Hepworth’s art became more and more abstract, similar with her English husband and artist Ben Nicholson, and other English sculptors.
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Some selected artist-quotes of English artist Barbara Hepworth - as a short introduction of her extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’The sculptor carves because he must. He needs the concrete form of stone and wood for the expression of his idea and experience.’ - quote of Hepworth, 1932; in her extract ‘The Sculptor carves because he must’, The Studio, London, England vol. 104

• ’I have always been interested in oval or ovoid shapes. The first carvings were simple realistic oval forms of the human head or of a bird. Gradually my interest grew in more abstract values – the weight, poise and curvature of the ovoid as a basic form. The carving and piercing of such a form seems to open up an infinite variety of continuous curves in the third dimension… .Here is a sufficient field for exploration to last a lifetime.’ - Hepworth’s quote, 1946 in: ‘The Studio 132:643’, 1946

• ’It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.’ - her quote in 1962, in: ‘Interview with The Studio’
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  selection of free art-resources on English artist Barbara Hepworth:

  • extended biographical notes on Barbara Hepworth, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Hepworth
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Hepworth, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barbara_Hepworth
  • images of her abstract sculpture art, on Wikicommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Hepworth
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek (= FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[see: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]