Close-up detail of Stone Sculpture (Fugue II) 1956: Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, St Ives, Cornwall
The sculpture's rhythmic quality is alluded to in the musical title. The visible working of the stone demonstrates Hepworth's practice of carving with a point chisel in parallel lines; on the lower part cuts have been made at right angles to achieve the face. The reductive process was very gradual, and this makes it likely that the smooth plane to the left (running almost the full height) is not a finished surface but the dressed face of the original block, to which the sculpture is closely worked. As the next stage, a claw chisel would be used to take the rest of the rough surface back to the deepest cut made with the point. In this process the crisp lines of the edges of the forms which describe the planar transitions and openings would be secured.
Size: 3413px × 5120px
Location: Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, St. Ives. Cornwall, UK
Photo credit: © will Perrett / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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