On Wednesday 8th January, during our History of Art lesson, we took a trip to The Wilson Art Gallery in Cheltenham to view Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape, a loan exhibition curated in partnership with the Hepworth Wakefield.
On display were works by celebrated 20th century artists, including Duncan Grant, Paul Nash, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Bridget Riley. This was a wonderful opportunity to see artworks up close and to connect themes in two of our A Level topics, ‘Brave new world: Modernism in Europe (1900-1939)’ and ‘Pop life: British and American contemporary art and architecture (1960-2015)’. A particular highlight was seeing a range of Hepworth’s sculptures, as we had studied the significance of the artist’s ‘single form’ motif in class the previous day.
While viewing ‘Single form (Chun Quoit)’, 1961, we discussed its relationship to the large version that stands outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and the significance of this monumental work as a memorial to Dag Hammarskjöld, who had been the second Secretary General of the UN between 1953-1961.
On the way back to College, we stopped to look at Cheltenham’s very own important Hepworth, ‘Theme and Variation’ 1972, which turned out to be the artist’s last major public commission. If you don’t know where it is, it’s above the entrance to Wagamama!
Joli and Tiggy, SFC2
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