Bauhaus Women
When the Bauhaus opened its doors in Weimar Germany in 1919, it became a hub of innovation and creativity, especially for its radical vision of unity between the arts, a utopian society that combined architecture, sculpture and painting into a single creative expression…
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Amrita Sher-Gil (30 January 1913 – 5 December 1941)
At the forefront of the modernist movement in India was Amrita Sher-Gil, a painter from the first half of the twentieth-century. She was born in Budapest in 1913 to a Hungarian Jewish mother and wealthy Punjabi Sikh father. However, she was not brought up amongst the... Read More
Lucie Rie (16 March 1902 – 1 April 1995)
Upon seeing Lucie Rie alongside her pottery, there seems to be a symbiosis between the potter and her pottery. Emmanuel Cooper noted that Lucie Rie’s works are ‘full of energy and life, composed, ordered and strong’…
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Barbara Hepworth’s Approach to Sculpture
I have always been interested in oval or ovoid shapes. The first carvings were simple realistic oval forms of the human head or of a bird. Gradually my interest grew in more abstract values …
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