The work features fluid sweeps of lilac contrasting with the bold straight lines which recreate
the stringed forms that encapsulated so much of Hepworth's sculptural work.
These carvings are closely related to drawings Hepworth made during the war - when she had little opportunity to carve - of abstract
stringed forms with colour, which are surrogate sculptures in many ways.
Not exact matches
Chitwood has now crossed his passions for plants and
stringed instruments by publishing a study that documents the evolution of violin shapes using the same methods that he uses for charting the evolving
form of leaves.
The soundtrack is a frenzied soundscape of
stringed instruments, and we eventually hear Scarlett Johansson
forming sounds and reading alphabetical lists of words, like someone learning a language, and those circles become what appears to be a human eye.
The surviving photographs of these works were all found at that time to be dated 1942, but a small concrete construction in the artist's collection, reminiscent in its more organic
form of Henry Moore's pre-war
stringed pieces, is dated 1945 and the first Crypt Group exhibition catalogue lists a relief construction by Wells dated 1946.
I am passionate about all
forms of music and art, positively geeky about string music and
stringed instruments, and zealous about good writing and story telling, particularly when it comes to finding new audiences for music.