Barbara hepworth museum
- •
TRACEY EMIN: MY BED
Tracey Emin in an artist known for her controversial autobiographical, confessional work. She uses art as a platform to confess things about her life and portray them to the public. E.G. “Everyone I’ve Ever Slept With 1963-1995” is a piece of work by Tracey; a tent appliqued with all the names of people whom she’s slept in a bed with her whole life.
Tracey Emin’s piece “My Bed”, was a piece she created in 1998, showcasing a bed that she had stayed in for a duration of time after a relationship breakup without being cleaned. Leaving the audience with a very upfront personal view of yellowed sheets, condoms, tampon, pregnancy test, discarded knickers and empty vodka bottles.
I really like Emin’s work because she displays uncomfortable and raw truths as pieces of art work, which otherwise, people would usually keep to themselves; even possibly keep to themselves. looking at some of her other work i really like and find interesting how she re-appropriates conventional handcraft techniques – or “wome
- •
Dame Barbara Hepworth
Of a middle-class family from the West Riding of Yorkshire, Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield on 10 January 1903; her father, Herbert Hepworth, would become County Surveyor and an Alderman. She trained in sculpture at Leeds School of Art (1920-1) and, on a county scholarship, at the Royal College of Art (1921-4), meeting the painters Raymond Coxon and Edna Ginesi and the sculptor Henry Moore. Hepworth was runner-up to John Skeaping for the 1924 Prix de Rome, but travelled to Florence on a West Riding Travel Scholarship. After visiting Rome and Siena with Skeaping, they were married in Florence on 13 May 1925 and moved to Rome, where both began carving stone. In November 1926, they returned to London. Links forged through the British School at Rome with the sculptor Richard Bedford (a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum), ensured that the collector George Eumorfopoulos visited their studio show in 1927 and bought two Hepworths. The couple moved to 7 The Mall Studios in Hampstead in 1928 (where Hepworth remained until 1939)
- •
Summary of Barbara Hepworth
Barbara Hepworth distinguished herself as a world-recognized sculptor in a period where female artists were rare. She evolved her ideas and her work as an influential part of an ongoing conversation with many other important artists of her time, working crucially in areas of greater abstraction while creating three dimensional objects. Her development of sculptural vocabularies and ideas was complex and multi-faceted. This included the use of a wide range of physical materials for sculpting and an unprecedented sensitivity to the particular qualities of those materials in helping decide the ultimate results of her sculptures, the investigation of "absence" in sculpture as much as "presence," and deep considerations of the relationship of her sculptural forms to the larger spaces surrounding it. Though her forms in their larger outlines tended to possess the clean lines of modernist aesthetics, she complicated these with different textures, an effect described by one reviewer as "sensuous and tactile" that "quickened the pulse".
Accomplishments
- She
Copyright ©cakestot.pages.dev 2025