Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red) 1940
The 1940 Hepworth's London studio was bombed. Although she spent a good deal more time in Cornwell, it was not a good period for work. War is not an ideal precondition for commissions. But out of the horror came this colourful work, with echos of the scallop shell and Cornwell's deep blue waters.
In an essay on sculpture in 1937 Hepworth had written:
"Full sculptural expression is spatial - it is the three dimensional realization of an idea, either by mass or by space construction. The materials for sculpture are unlimited in their vaiety of quality, tenseness and aliveness. But for the imaginative idea to be fully and freely projected into stone, wood or any plastic substance, a complete sensibility to the material - an understanding of its inherent quality and character - is required. There must be a perfect unity between the idea, the substance and the dimension: this unity gives the scale. The idea - the imaginative concept - actually is the giving of life and vitality to material."
Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red) 1940
The 1940 Hepworth's London studio was bombed. Although she spent a good deal more time in Cornwell, it was not a good period for work. War is not an ideal precondition for commissions. But out of the horror came this colourful work, with echos of the scallop shell and Cornwell's deep blue waters.
In an essay on sculpture in 1937 Hepworth had written:
"Full sculptural expression is spatial - it is the three dimensional realization of an idea, either by mass or by space construction. The materials for sculpture are unlimited in their vaiety of quality, tenseness and aliveness. But for the imaginative idea to be fully and freely projected into stone, wood or any plastic substance, a complete sensibility to the material - an understanding of its inherent quality and character - is required. There must be a perfect unity between the idea, the substance and the dimension: this unity gives the scale. The idea - the imaginative concept - actually is the giving of life and vitality to material."