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Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was one of the few women artists to achieve international prominence. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War.
Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest child of Gertrude and Herbert Hepworth. Her father was a civil engineer for the West Riding County Council, who in 1921 became County Surveyor. An upwardly mobile family, and a dominant father determined her to exploit fully her natural talents. She attended Wakefield Girls' High School, and won a scholarship to and studied at the Leeds School of Art from 1920. It was there that she met her fellow student, Henry Moore. They became friends and established a friendly rivalry that lasted professionally for many years. Hepworth was the first to sculpt the pierced figures that are characteristic of works by both. They would lead in the path to modernism in sculpture.
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This film examines how Cornish landscapes have influenced Barbara Hepworth's work. BBC Archives
Narrated by future Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis, 'Figures in a Landscape' offers a poetic portrait of sculptor Barbara Hepworth and the otherworldly Cornwall landscapes that inspired her work. Priaulx Rainier's haunting score beautifully complements the extraordinary works of art, placed in the Cornish spaces that influenced them. Hepworth had been commissioned to design sculptures for the Festival of Britain two years before this film, and remains one of Britain's most celebrated sculptors - she was made a Dame in 1965. She died during a fire at her St. Ives studio in 1975. (Alex Davidson) All titles on the BFI Films channel are preserved in the vast collections of the BFI National Archive. To find out more about the Archive visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections
Barbara Hepworth’s modernist sculpture was heavily influenced by natural landscapes and environmental forms. From St Ives to Greece she was inspired by the shapes and intrinsic characteristics of coastal lines and organic structures. In this film curator Chris Stephens spotlights the physical process and attention to detail behind Hepworth’s work. We also look at the raw materials she worked with and the visionary way she made the inside of the sculpture as prominent a feature as the outside.
British sculptress Barbara Hepworth interviewed in 1972
Barbara Hepworth first came to live in Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family at the outbreak of war in 1939. She lived and worked in Trewyn studios, now the Hepworth Museum, from 1949 until her death in 1975. TateShots travelled to St Ives to explore the studio and its gardens, where Hepworth's sculptures are seen in the environment for which they were created. 'Finding Trewyn Studio was a sort of magic', wrote Hepworth; 'here was a studio, a yard and garden where I could work in open air and space'. The film includes archival footage from an interview with the artist from 1973.
Andrew Jackson takes us on a tour of the Barbara Hepworth Museum in St Ives. Film commissioned by http://www.stivesholidays.com/ With thanks to the Tate and Barbara Hepworth Estate. more info : http://stivestv.co.uk/
Unissued / Unused material - CU plates designed by Barbara Hepworth. Shots of Sculptor / Sculptress Barbara Hepworth working with hammer and chisel in garden. Various shots of work at the Barbara Hepworth Exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London. Lots of interesting works of art. FILM ID:3332.04 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/
First broadcast: Sep 2014. Documentary which unlocks the BBC archives to tell the story of abstract art in Britain through the words of some of its leading lights. From Barbara Hepworth's abstract geometric forms and Bridget Riley's op art imagery to Anthony Caro's bold new ideas about sculpture, the film reveals the remarkable and varied ways in which British artists explored the idea of abstraction in the 20th century.
British sculptress Barbara Hepworth interviewed in 1972
Recordings of interviews with Dame Barbara Hepworth, set to a slideshow of images of St Ives. Part of a short linked series (annotated) about Barbara Hepworth
Narrated by future Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis, 'Figures in a Landscape' offers a poetic portrait of sculptor Barbara Hepworth and the otherworldly Cornwall landscapes that inspired her work. Priaulx Rainier's haunting score beautifully complements the extraordinary works of art, placed in the Cornish spaces that influenced them. Hepworth had been commissioned to design sculptures for the Festival of Britain two years before this film, and remains one of Britain's most celebrated sculptors - she was made a Dame in 1965. She died during a fire at her St. Ives studio in 1975. (Alex Davidson) All titles on the BFI Films channel are preserved in the vast collections of the BFI National Archive. To find out more about the Archive visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections
Barbara Hepworth’s modernist sculpture was heavily influenced by natural landscapes and environmental forms. From St Ives to Greece she was inspired by the shapes and intrinsic characteristics of coastal lines and organic structures. In this film curator Chris Stephens spotlights the physical process and attention to detail behind Hepworth’s work. We also look at the raw materials she worked with and the visionary way she made the inside of the sculpture as prominent a feature as the outside.
Unissued / Unused material - CU plates designed by Barbara Hepworth. Shots of Sculptor / Sculptress Barbara Hepworth working with hammer and chisel in garden. Various shots of work at the Barbara Hepworth Exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London. Lots of interesting works of art. FILM ID:3332.04 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/
Barbara Hepworth first came to live in Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family at the outbreak of war in 1939. She lived and worked in Trewyn studios, now the Hepworth Museum, from 1949 until her death in 1975. TateShots travelled to St Ives to explore the studio and its gardens, where Hepworth's sculptures are seen in the environment for which they were created. 'Finding Trewyn Studio was a sort of magic', wrote Hepworth; 'here was a studio, a yard and garden where I could work in open air and space'. The film includes archival footage from an interview with the artist from 1973.
As part of Quest Gallery's continuing program of events we present - Rosemary Simmons and Ian Wilson in conversation at Quest Gallery. This interview examines a unique collection of 20th Century prints owned by Rosemary Simmons, founding editor of Printmaking Today and former director of the Curwen Gallery in London. The collection is on permanent display at the gallery and features works by Henry Moore, John Piper, Elisabeth Frink, Barbara Hepworth, and many other fine printmakers. www.questgallery.co.uk
► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube: http://bit.ly/FTimeSubs In June, Tate Britain will stage the first major London survey of Barbara Hepworth’s work since 1968. To complement it, the Hepworth gallery in Wakefield opens an exhibition about the sculptor’s last decade. The FT’s Griselda Murray Brown reports. ► FT Business: http://bit.ly/1KUK08s ► Life & Arts on The FT: http://bit.ly/1cNDrIT ►Mexico City’s Water Farms : http://bit.ly/1BqdLxV For more video content from the Financial Times, visit http://www.FT.com/video Twitter https://twitter.com/ftvideo Facebook https://www.facebook.com/financialtimes
This film examines how Cornish landscapes have influenced Barbara Hepworth's work. BBC Archives
A brief view of Barbara Hepworth at work, but mostly images of her sculptures and drawings. Hardly any commentary at all.
► Subscribe to the Financial Times on YouTube: http://bit.ly/FTimeSubs In June, Tate Britain will stage the first major London survey of Barbara Hepworth’s work since 1968. To complement it, the Hepworth gallery in Wakefield opens an exhibition about the sculptor’s last decade. The FT’s Griselda Murray Brown reports. ► FT Business: http://bit.ly/1KUK08s ► Life & Arts on The FT: http://bit.ly/1cNDrIT ►Mexico City’s Water Farms : http://bit.ly/1BqdLxV For more video content from the Financial Times, visit http://www.FT.com/video Twitter https://twitter.com/ftvideo Facebook https://www.facebook.com/financialtimes
This film examines how Cornish landscapes have influenced Barbara Hepworth's work. BBC Archives
Narrated by future Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis, 'Figures in a Landscape' offers a poetic portrait of sculptor Barbara Hepworth and the otherworldly Cornwall landscapes that inspired her work. Priaulx Rainier's haunting score beautifully complements the extraordinary works of art, placed in the Cornish spaces that influenced them. Hepworth had been commissioned to design sculptures for the Festival of Britain two years before this film, and remains one of Britain's most celebrated sculptors - she was made a Dame in 1965. She died during a fire at her St. Ives studio in 1975. (Alex Davidson) All titles on the BFI Films channel are preserved in the vast collections of the BFI National Archive. To find out more about the Archive visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections
Barbara Hepworth’s modernist sculpture was heavily influenced by natural landscapes and environmental forms. From St Ives to Greece she was inspired by the shapes and intrinsic characteristics of coastal lines and organic structures. In this film curator Chris Stephens spotlights the physical process and attention to detail behind Hepworth’s work. We also look at the raw materials she worked with and the visionary way she made the inside of the sculpture as prominent a feature as the outside.
British sculptress Barbara Hepworth interviewed in 1972
Barbara Hepworth first came to live in Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family at the outbreak of war in 1939. She lived and worked in Trewyn studios, now the Hepworth Museum, from 1949 until her death in 1975. TateShots travelled to St Ives to explore the studio and its gardens, where Hepworth's sculptures are seen in the environment for which they were created. 'Finding Trewyn Studio was a sort of magic', wrote Hepworth; 'here was a studio, a yard and garden where I could work in open air and space'. The film includes archival footage from an interview with the artist from 1973.
Andrew Jackson takes us on a tour of the Barbara Hepworth Museum in St Ives. Film commissioned by http://www.stivesholidays.com/ With thanks to the Tate and Barbara Hepworth Estate. more info : http://stivestv.co.uk/
Unissued / Unused material - CU plates designed by Barbara Hepworth. Shots of Sculptor / Sculptress Barbara Hepworth working with hammer and chisel in garden. Various shots of work at the Barbara Hepworth Exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London. Lots of interesting works of art. FILM ID:3332.04 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/
First broadcast: Sep 2014. Documentary which unlocks the BBC archives to tell the story of abstract art in Britain through the words of some of its leading lights. From Barbara Hepworth's abstract geometric forms and Bridget Riley's op art imagery to Anthony Caro's bold new ideas about sculpture, the film reveals the remarkable and varied ways in which British artists explored the idea of abstraction in the 20th century.
This film examines how Cornish landscapes have influenced Barbara Hepworth's work. BBC Archives
Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) British Sculptor Movements: Surrealism, Modern Sculpture 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 "prese...
As part of Quest Gallery's continuing program of events we present - Rosemary Simmons and Ian Wilson in conversation at Quest Gallery. This interview examines a unique collection of 20th Century prints owned by Rosemary Simmons, founding editor of Printmaking Today and former director of the Curwen Gallery in London. The collection is on permanent display at the gallery and features works by Henry Moore, John Piper, Elisabeth Frink, Barbara Hepworth, and many other fine printmakers. www.questgallery.co.uk
Podcast de l'émission Artracaille diffusée tous les mardis matins de 11 h à 12 h 30 en direct sur Radio Libertaire 89.4 ou en réécoute sur le blog de l'émission http://www.artracaille.fr
The Art of Cornwall Full Documentary The art colony of St Ives in Cornwall became as important as Paris or London in the history of modernism during a golden creative period between the 1920s and 1960s. The dramatic lives and works of eight artists who most made this miracle possible, from Kit Wood and Alfred Wallis to Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, are featured in a documentary which offers an alternative history of the 20th century avant-garde as well as a vivid portrayal of the history and landscapes of Cornwall itself. Featuring Artists: Christopher Kit Wood Alfred Wallis Barbara Hepworth Ben Nicholson http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/christopher-wood-2167 http://www.andyblair.co.uk/alfredwallis/ http://www.artcornwall.org/profiles/Barbara_Hepworth.htm http://www.tate.org...
Alan Yentob meets one of Britain's most accomplished and popular sculptors.
Linder, The Ultimate Form, presented by Tate St Ives This major performance piece by Linder is inspired by the artist's research into the work of Barbara Hepworth. A collaboration with Northern Ballet, choreographed by Kenneth Tindall with music by Stuart McCallum and costumes by Richard Nicoll. Recorded live at St Ives Theatre, 8 Feb 2014
Presented September 21, 2013 at the Nasher Sculpture Center. 'Isamu Noguchi Ceramics: A Kind of Antisculpture' - Catherine Craft, Adjunct Assistant Curator for Research and Exhibitions, Nasher Sculpture Center Catherine Craft discusses the development of American-born artist Isamu Noguchi’s experiments with clay as he explored his Japanese heritage through craft and tradition. His travel to Japan after World War Two and employ with a Kyoto-based potter, provided a foil to his academic training and experience working with Constantin Brancusi in Paris. Organized to coincide with the public opening of the exhibition 'Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi, and Picasso, 1943–1963', this symposium offers a number of new perspectives on the often-overlooked, ye...
How to play a role as an estate in order to reassess the artist’s oeuvre after his death, at the level of its scientific value, in the market and in the museum context? The speakers will share their experience with artist’s legacies also addressing questions such as: How can an artist already plan his future estate? How to deal with the catalogue raisonné? How to collaborate with the different actors in the art market? Moderated by Philippine Hoegen, with the participation of: - Stephen Feeke, Director of New Art Centre, Roche Court in Wiltshire, sole representative of the Barbara Hepworth estate - Shervone Neckles-Ortiz, Artist Program Manager for the Joan Mitchell Foundation - Andrew Renton, Professor of curating at Goldsmiths College - Hélène Vandenberghe, Partner and Coordinator ...