Analysis Of The Relationship Between Natural Elements And Presentation In Barbara Hepworth’s Sculpture

Philosopher Plato and Aristotle views about the relationship between the nature and essence of art the same,they think that imitating the nature is the essence of art,the so-called imitating nature is not literally,but through the actual existence of natural form to perceive natural elements,reduction in the creation of the cognition to the nature as a whole and on the expression level to rebuild the natural elements.Barbara Hepworth,a sculptor born in England in the early 20 th century,is an outstanding modernist artist and is known as one of the greatest sculptors of the 20 th century.And at the same time the sculptor Henry Moore is the same art college,she and Moore has a different point of view in the relationship between nature and sculpture,on the onlookers’ perspective,Hepworth and Moore’s creation style has a lot of intersections and in common,Moore’s work pay more attention to in volume,his artistic style between tradition and abstract,Carry out the basic laws of nature in their own works,and strive to retain the original texture of materials in the works;While hope wo is different with him,she observed in the objective world through all natural structure,aims to express in the sculpture for her own natural landscape of the whole feeling,all found in the natural landscape of the relationship between natural element and element in sculpture using geometry abstract presentation to comprehensive expression.In the early stage of Hepworth’s creation,her works had a strong sense of naturalism.In the early 1930 s,her works began to break away from tradition and entered a completely abstract period.In the 1940 s,the style of her works was influenced by The Russian structuralist sculptor Naum Gabor,who added linear elements to her sculptures.She began to think about the meaning,change and combination of the way sculpture was presented,and concluded her own sculpture language.This paper attempts to draw similarities and differences by combining Hepworth’s subjective refinement and transformation of natural elements in her sculptures,the mining and deformation of natural forms,and the types of her modeling presentation,as well as some relevant sculpture cases.Then combined with his personal art process to analyze and study the relationship and possibility of natural elements and presentation methods in his sculpture,as well as its creation essence and artistic concept,to explore the enlightenment and possibility of his personal artistic creation.