Dimensions: object: 207 x 700 x 260 mm, 26 kg
Copyright: © The estate of Bernard Meadows | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: So, this bronze sculpture, "Help," by Bernard Meadows, it's just so... angular, yet there's this vulnerability to the rounded form wedged between those brutal blocks. What do you make of it? Curator: It's Meadows wrestling with the anxieties of his time, wouldn't you say? The post-war era, that sense of fractured existence, of being caught, almost crushed, between opposing forces. It's a cry for help, yes, but also a testament to resilience. Does that resonate with you? Editor: Definitely! It's both unsettling and strangely hopeful. Thanks for untangling that for me. Curator: My pleasure! Art's a mirror; it's meant to provoke thought, not just admiration.
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In the mid 1960s Meadows replaced the textured surfaces of his earlier sculptures with smooth, rounded forms, and the earlier naturalistic subjects of animals and figures with abstractions. The element of fear and anxiety which had characterised his early work, however, was retained. Alan Bowness described Help as a ‘cry of pain from the crushed ocular form’ (Bowness, p.17). He continued:
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