Word: hepworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost by default, the grand prize (worth $4,000) went to Britain's Barbara Hepworth. Sculptress Hepworth, 56, once had her studio near Henry Moore's, and has stayed in his long, pierced shadow. Her smoothly involuted forms look like Moore's women without the womanliness; they are more like analytical geometry than like people. More powerful are the forged iron abstractions of Italy's Francesco Somaini, at 33 a newcomer to the big time, who won the prize for the best foreign sculptor. Rough, inelegant for an Italian, Somaini produces work resembling meteorites and mountains, full of energy...
Most famed are Henry Moore, 60, the first major sculptor Britain has produced in centuries, and Barbara Hepworth, 55, whose pebble-smooth, elegantly shaped forms echo the thin abstractions of her former husband, Painter Ben Nicholson. Approaching fame is Ralph Brown, 30, who aims in roughhewn style at creating images that "parallel the personality of the people," and Leslie Thornton, 33, a welder of bronze cages in which tortured figures seem suspended or crucified...
ARNOLD C. HEPWORTH...
...time, an experience which "helped to release all of my energies for an exploration of free sculptural form." She fell in love with the painter as well as the paintings, and three years later she and Nicholson were married. It was about this time in her career that Sculptress Hepworth began to put holes in her carvings: "I . . . felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space...
Fresh Influence. The birth of the Nicholson-Hepworth triplets in October 1934 was soberly noted by Sculptress Hepworth: "It was a tremendously exciting event. We were only prepared for one child, and the arrival of three babies by 6 o'clock in the morning meant considerable improvisation . . ." She also tells what happened to her sculpture: "When I started carving again in November . . . my work seemed to have changed direction although the only fresh influence had been the arrival of the children. The work was more formal, and all traces of naturalism had disappeared, and for some years...