Dame Barbara Hepworth
Tomorrow is the birthday of British sculptress Dame Barbara Hepworth b.1903 – 1975 – I shouldn’t really call Hepworth a sculptress – as she believed in equality of the sexes, especially in the arts. I am putting this post on today because it’s a week since I posted – and I don’t want to get into bad habits already. As well as having a horrific flu virus which I’m still trying to shake off, I have been busy planning a very loosely based itinerary of the way the posts shall go and that in itself has taken some time. Of course, whether I stick strictly to this shall have to be seen…… watch this space (there might even be something in it from time to time). Now, that is just a joke 😀 Just call it flu delirium 🙂
Barbara Hepworth is very famous for piercing her sculptures. She pierced her first form in 1931, the year she gave birth to her first child, ( though Henry Moore got all the credit for being the first to pierce the form in 1932.) Another characteristic of Hepworth’s work are strings or wires which are stretched over the pierced part of the form. I have written quite a bit about Hepworth over the past couple of years:-
Happy Birthday Barbara Hepworth!
A Cornish garden of hidden delights – the Barbara Hepworth Museum Cornwall
To celebrate her birthday this year I am running another poetry competition over on Bookstains. Just click the image below for details of how to enter this unusual challenge 🙂
original image from here Adam Woolfitt here, others from here and here
