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Barbara Hepworth
early life and education dame barbara hepworth, a renowned english artist and sculptor, was born on january 10, 1903, in wakefield, yorkshire. she attended the leeds school of art from 1920 and later won a county scholarship to study at the royal college of art (rca) in london from 1921 until she was awarded the diploma in 1924. artistic career dame barbara hepworth's work exemplifies modernism, particularly modern sculpture. she was o
ne of the few female artists to achieve international prominence. in 1933, she co-founded the unit one art movement with ben nicholson, paul nash, and others, seeking to unite surrealism and abstraction in british art. hepworth's early work was characterized by abstraction and her involvement with the paris-based art movement, abstraction-création. notable works and exhibitions oval form (trezion), a bronze sculpture, is part of the…