The painting Itea is a close-up work featuring a red background. The composition is characterized by various shapes and designs, including several circles of different sizes scattered throughout the piece to create a visual effect. A square shape is positioned in the middle of the painting, standing out from the rest of the design. The arrangement of these elements is intricate and thoughtfully composed.
The artwork was created in 1971. It is a painting by the artist Barbara Hepworth.
"Itea" belongs to the Late Period of Barbara Hepworth's career. This classification relates the work to the artist's development.
The Guide page of "Itea" by Barbara Hepworth offers a printable two-sheet factsheet: the artwork with its identity table, a decade band placing it in the artist's lifetime, other works by the artist, the measured color palette, and ready-to-copy citations in four styles.
Within the Modernism movement, "Itea" is recorded with a reflective tone.
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