I'm not often moved by modern art, but her work always blew me away.

Stunning form, her work is extraordinary. Age notwithstanding I wish she were here today producing more work.

I never 'got' Barbara Hepworth's work - until I worked in a museum that displayed several of her pieces. I said so to the Curator. "Ah" he said. "But have you actually touched them; run your fingers over them?" "No." I replied. "I didn't know I was allowed to." As soon as I touched one of the pieces, the tactile nature of it made me understand the art perfectly.

What a lovely film. She gives a true understanding of her art and I love the idea of carrying a stone washed up by the sea. In this uncertain world I think we could all do with one.

goodness that was pleasant to watch.

What a lovely film. Thank you!

The sculpture in Oxford street John Lewis is a beautiful piece

I was once taught that, "There are no boring stories. Only boring story tellers." I had no interest in sculptures, I had no idea who this lady was, and yet, over 60 years later, she's made me think differently about a subject that I didn't know I needed to know. Well, I'll look at the beach and cliffs a little differently today.

My great aunt 🙂

Great video, thank you.

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A giant of European art.

heavyweight

I drilled a hole in a stone once and polished it up, but unfortunately I sold it for only £300,000 pounds. That was back in the days when one still had to have real artistic skill such as Turner or Constable in the post war years to be called an artist. If I could have hung on to that stone it would be worth millions today - rather like Tracy Emin selling that neon sign to Tony Blair for £500,000.

To me, the sculptures are primitive, childish, inchoate, lazy and talentless. Nowadays, we accept all kind of rubbish. As long as someone (not necessarily the artists) gives a wordy explanation of their convoluted thought processes. We accept it without question - to do so might show us up as being lacking in imagination. (And we can't have that,can we?). This perversity has led to monstrosities such as those from Warhol and Basquiat. Art so astonishingly bad, that I'd genuinely be ashamed for a 6 year old to see. I've been to an exhibition and seen a plain canvas, 10"x8", painted with a paint roller. To the right of it was the description about how it demonstrated the expansiveness of the universe. The gallery paid thousands of dollars for it. Shame on them. Shame on us. This illustrates that we have too much money, too many pretentions and too much time on our hands. In short, we demonstrate an inability to be outraged by artistic confidence tricks. When we see something ugly and talentless, we should shout out our disgust, NOT clap like seals.

Grim with a capital G. Chose to live in a beautiful natural environment and yet subject urban environments to brutalist modern art. Oh the irony.