Bernard Palissy
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Henry Moore
English sculptor (1898-1986)
Henry Spencer Moore was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.
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About the Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. Moore also produced many drawings, including a series depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz during the Second World War, along with other graphic works on paper.
His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore’s works are usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. His forms are generally pierced or contain hollow spaces. Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his Yorkshire birthplace.
Moore became well known through his carved marble and larger-scale abstract cast bronze sculptures, and was instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom. His ability in later life to fulfil large-scale commissions made him exceptionally wealthy. Despite this, he lived frugally; most of the money he earned went towards endowing the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts.
8 Quotes by Henry Moore
- 1.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry MooreEnglish sculptor (1898-1986)
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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry MooreEnglish sculptor (1898-1986)
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The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry MooreEnglish sculptor (1898-1986)
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Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
Henry MooreEnglish sculptor (1898-1986)
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I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’.
Henry MooreEnglish sculptor (1898-1986)
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Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.
Henry MooreEnglish sculptor (1898-1986)
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The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
Henry MooreEnglish sculptor (1898-1986)
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To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
Henry MooreEnglish sculptor (1898-1986)