1/4 Abstract Artists In Their Own Words

Barbara Hepworth's Great Nephew here. She passed before my time, but wish I had the opportunity to meet her. Inspirational.

Love ❤️ this abstract sculpture artist Barbara Hepworth. The children in this documentary are so perceptive and well spoken.

Brilliant- all my favourite artists in one place!

incredible! thanks for posting this treasure!

Great upload(s), thanks a lot!

Most of my favorite twentieth-century artists focused on representational work, but Barbara Hepworth is an exception to this general rule. She's one of my favorite sculptors, and none of her best work is representational in any obvious sense. I love her abstracted, organic forms, suggestive of shapes and processes of the natural world, and conveying the same qualities of timelessness and endurance as those natural phenomena. I think she would be a strong contender for being the finest abstract artist Britain has produced.

These are beautiful thank you ❤ this is art 😊

A very interesting subject you chose here, dear Josh! Will follow the remaining parts with eagerness! Thanks & Hugs, Karin

Bonus Dr James Fox, what a pleasant surprise! Thanks for sharing, another great documentary!

But just like in Atonality in music the ghost of tonality haunts it so here the ghost of representationalism haunts abstract expressionism. This is actually very important.

I got to meet all these artists, I have nothing but good things to say about them. They didn’t have to take the time to be nice and kind but they did it anyway. Sadly that was just a dream when I met them and it never happened in real life.

i'm a huge fan of Barbara H.

All art styles are valid. Not all art is good.

The Pasmore Pavilion in Peterlee looks like a blank canvas to me. It would be interesting to see the town paint different abstract pieces all over the building then it will be brought to life.

I agree

Much better pursuit of direct experience than to represent (re-present) the world around one. Nothing abstract about it at all.

The more radical the more controversy ,The perception of the norm vs the idividual. Art survives on its own merits growth and time changes the way we explore art ,we develope,experience learn acquire examine, rationalize ridicule except acknowledge ,analyze critique politicize, psychoanalysis, relate spiritualise .A transition of culture .exsistential tendencies....

מעניין ומרתק, פיסול חי ונושם ,והחללים שבתוכם משחקים ומוסיפים לעבודות

Sadly I feel like I should’ve been born in a different time.… If people saw my work today in the museum it would look like something from the 20th century modern… That’s not to brag but as a student of the art institute of Chicago I was definitely influenced by the art that was in that museum, and I showed my paintings to people at MOMA and they were very startled to know that this artwork was done More recently in the past 25 years… Some of it look like Expressionism, fauvism, abstract expressionism from that era… But that was just to share and it was a nice complement to have but I really felt like I should’ve been born in 1940-50s so that I could’ve been a part of that art movement in the 60s and 70s.. oh well such a dream… I’m also one of those artists who can’t continue to paint the same thing over and over, something galleries want you to do… I find it disturbing and it also doesn’t allow Artist to evolve… I don’t even know how to continue doing the same thing over and over just slightly different than the last painting… It’s annoying, but hey what they want is to make money and make you recognizable… They don’t want to let you grow as an artist which is the reason why I can’t stand the Gallery system… Hopefully the new galleries will be able to show more flexibility and allow the artist to let his paintings standalone instead of having 10 paintings that all look similar… What’s the point of that? If you want to see my work, criticize my work or whatever it’s on Instagram under the name frankiedynomite a.k.a. Franz Joseph , just so you know where I’m coming from.

Abstract vs realism: Realism is what's inside the artist, Abstract is what's inside the observer.