# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bes69OChMGW
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16046200-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-02-02T16:59:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction. 〰
Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) was a British artist that pioneered modernist sculpture with her smooth elliptical shapes that evoked a powerful sense of peace and balance. Born in a small town in Yorkshire, the pastoral scene of her childhood helped her develop a deep appreciation of the landscape. "All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures," she explained. "Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fulnesses and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, through mind and hand and eye." Before the first world war, Hepworth lived in London and became an important member, and one of very few woman, within selective art collectives, and contributed to the Circle, the modernist manifesto. Relocating to the seaside town of St. Ives during the war, Hepworth continued to use naturalistic scenery as an essential part of her artistic practice. Many of her sculptures are about the relationship between a person and the landscape.Hepworth’s brilliant use of negative space and ability to elegantly connect undulating curves and shapes, seamlessly blend figure and landscape into a single unifying form. The land served as an comforting inspiration during wartime, but Hepworth also turned her attention to more humanistic forms that were displayed in public spaces for open engagement. “I think every sculpture must be touched, it’s part of the way you make it and it’s really our first sensibility, it is the sense of feeling, it is first one we have when we’re born...with as sculpture you must walk around it, bend toward it, touch it and walk away from it.” Hepworth produced several public sculptures, including “Single Form” which is exhibited on the United Nations plaza in New York City. 〰
#BarbaraHepworth 
Image: Photo by Paul Schutzer, 1964.

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