Negative Space

Barbara Hepworth, Oval Form (Penwith Landscape)
Exhibited at Marlborough Gallery, Fall 2000
1955-1956

this sculpture for Barbra Hepworth, is called Oval Form (Penwith Landscape) Hepworth has carved negative spaces so called because they're empty spaces that require a since of volume and form by means of the out line or frame that surrounds them. Hepworth has painted these negative spaces white.