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Hepworth in Colour review
Courtauld, LondonBarbara Hepworth’s elegant works, with their harp-like strings and splashes of blue, evoke the foamy breakers of St Ives. But should we really be surprised she used colour?
TL;DR
- The exhibition highlights Barbara Hepworth's use of color, primarily blue and white, inspired by the sea near her home in St Ives.
- Her sculptures are described as lucid, geometrical, and evocative of natural elements like waves and seaweed.
- The use of red strings in her sculptures adds a sense of movement and can be compared to an Aeolian harp.
- The reviewer questions the exhibition's premise, finding the focus on her use of color reductive and suggesting her sculptures possess a power beyond mere color.
- Hepworth's work is seen as capturing the solitude, peace, and vast time cycles of nature, rather than depicting it directly.