Henry Moore Aimy Tran Mr. Cox Period 1 Henry Moore was an English sculptor and artist who was known for his abstract bronze sculptures. Moore was born on July 1819 in Castleford‚ Yorkshire. He attended infant and elementary schools in Castleford‚ where he began modeling in clay and carving wood. He decided to become a sculptor after hearing Michelangelo’s achievements. Moore was granted a scholarship to Castleford Secondary School after a teacher had noticed his interest and talent in medieval
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Digging deeper into the meaning of Henry Moore’s sculptures Moore’s sculptures are exhibited all around the world. In Moore’s homeland‚ the sculptures are exhibited in Kew Botanical Gardens‚ the natural suuroundings of the gardens compliment the sculptures. It feels as if the sculptures are different during the different times of the day. In the morning‚ when the sculptures are wrapped in mist‚ or during middag when the blue sky and sunshine makes them shine‚ or in the evening‚ when the sculptures
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Henry Moore was born 30.07.1898 and lived for 88 years. Moore would have prioritised his art over his academic study. After numerous visits to the ethnographic collections of the British museum‚ Europian modernist; i.e Picasso‚ Arp‚ Brancusi and Giacometti became influences. Uniting these inspirations was a deeply felt humanist. He often used abstract form to draw comparisons between the human body and landscapes. Moore’s images of figures sheltering in London subway stations sheltering during
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In the lecture Henry Moore was described as the most famous British sculptor in the the 20th century. He was very well known for his many statues made of stone‚ wood‚ and bronze in the 1940s and 1950s. One of his statues portrays a reclining female made of various curves with some negative space and a very visual hole in her midsection. Many people thought at the time that the hole stood for the spiritual emptiness of men in which also meant that they were misguided in their faith. Others thought
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attitudes‚ beliefs‚ influences and concerns through their work‚ this becomes evident through all the ways that the reclining nude is depicted. Titian was the first artist who established the reclining nude by painting his version of an idealized female form as we are able to see in “Venus of urbino” (1538). Edouard Manet was known for challenging his society through his version of the reclining nude recreating it in his work “Olympia” (1863) in order to show the culture of his time. Yasumasa Morimura also
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Marianne Craig Moore was born on November 15‚ 1887 in Kirkwood‚ Missouri. She was the second child of Mary Warner and her father John Milton Moore‚ a construction worker and inventor. After a failed inventions attempt her father had a nervous mental breakdown and was sent to the hospital. She never met her father because he left before she was born. She was raised in her grandfather’s household. Her grandfather was a Presbyterian pastor and after his death her family had to move to Carlisle‚ Pennsylvania
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Faith Kim Prof. Hight Introduction to Visual Arts 4 June 2012 Reclining Nude The artwork is called Reclining Nude by Jean-Antoine Watteau and I found this artwork in the Norton Simon Museum. I was captivated by the sensuality and the delicacy in the painting. I first noticed in the painting was her robust ivory figure contrasting with the dark chocolate background because I felt that these contrasting colors evoked a sense of purity and light against the mysterious darkness. She seems to have
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Object of my Obsession Two artists‚ Henry Moore and Alexander Calder‚ both very different in the way they grew up‚ and their life ambitions. However one thing they had in common was that they both ended up becoming fantastic artists later on in life. Their styles of artwork were very different to each others. Moore’s concentrated on sketching and sculptures made of stone‚ bronze and wood. His artworks are intriguing as they showed the bond between mother and child. An aspect of interest in his
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This piece is called Warrior with Shield by Henry Moore‚ from the mid-twentieth century (1954). This sculpture is composed of form because it is three-dimensional which‚ has height‚width and depth. This form has geometric shapes; the shield that the men is holding is a thin spherical shape with a pointy middle and the head of the man is an oval spherical shape. A strong sense of form has been created by increasing the contrast between highlights and shadow areas. For example the pointy part of
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Figure skating is skating on ice‚ which is characterized by the performance of spins‚ dance movements and jumps (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). For figure skaters‚ however‚ the ice-ring is their second home and skating is their freedom‚ remedy‚ and life. For them‚ figure skating is not only about jumps and various movements; it is about handling nerves and controlling pressure. A skater needs to have good balance on the ice in order to remain stable. This is due to the understanding of the center
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