Thursday, April 20, 2023

MORE MOORE

 MORE MOORE


Henry Moore (1898-1986) is among the most influential sculptors of Modernism. He advanced abstract figurative sculpture without entirely abandoning naturalistic representation. Among the pioneer abstract sculptors of Modernism, he cultivated his own original style to monumental effect.

An early and lasting influence on Moore dates from his six-month traveling scholarship to Northern Italy and side trip to Paris. Impressed by the Mesoamerican chac-mool at the Trocadero, he made abstract variations on the reclining figure a major and lifetime motif of his art. ...... CLICK

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