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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk08:48, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Three Obliques (Walk In) in Cardiff, May 2021
Three Obliques (Walk In) in Cardiff, May 2021
  • ... that Barbara Hepworth instructed people to "walk in" to her sculptures? Source: "In 1962 Hepworth gave an interview to The Studio magazine in which she remarked on her interest in the abstract form and its potential appeal to viewers: 'It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture since the whole body reacts to its presence...people become themselves a living part of the work'. It is perhaps this idea which prompted her to use part of her work's titles to invite people to 'Walk In' or 'Walk Through'" ([https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/beyond-limits-l15010/lot.13.html Sotheby's - Beyond Limits: The Landscape of British Sculpture 1950-2015 - Lot 13 Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE THREE OBLIQUES (WALK IN))

Created by No Swan So Fine (talk) and Another Believer (talk). Nominated by No Swan So Fine (talk) at 12:05, 26 May 2021 (UTC).[reply]