Henry Moore

Henry Moore was the most famous sculptor in his era, especially the second part of his career, which showed that the sculptures of modernist unexpectedly adapted to official needs. In this sense, Moore is a modern wonderful neoclassical sculptor like Canova and Sovardson. Moore was born in Yorkshire Castleford in July 1898 as the seventh child of a miner working in a mining pit. Parents are strong and cooperative, and Moore's childhood is happy.

Henry Moore created two piece Reclining Figure 3 in 1961. A British photographer named Bill Brandt announced a nudity model album Perspective Nudes (5). I believe this has influenced Henry Moore and his work on this sculpture. Looking at the two reclining figures, you can see it almost as if you are composing, interacting and playing naked human beings. This creates a bright tension and movement between the two characters. Compared to his earlier works like the 1953 Drape Reclining figure (see Figure 1), he uses the line and shape blurring more strongly, so Henry Moore's two reclining changes are all more It seems abstract. In the drape reclining figure, the lady reclining on the elbow is clearly visible. Two-piece reclining In Figure 3, Henry Moore stops and observes the observer and forces them to think about what they are seeing.

For nearly 60 years, Henry Moore has explored the change of the theme of character reclining. As mentioned above, he was originally inspired by ancient materials; Henry Moore used this subject to analogize man and other forms, especially rocks and mountain landscapes, in nature. As the audience has observed it, this classic and obviously unnatural sculpture changes in a complex way. The shape is ambiguous, the space opens, and the forms overlap each other, resulting in a completely different form. Two-piece Reclining I think that Figure 3 attracts Moore's attention to a smooth semi-abstract format.

Henry Moore (1898-1986), a major figure in the sculpture world, explored traditional sculpture problems such as sitting and reclining using traditional materials (wood, bronze, stone). He thinks that the shape of the space created by sculpture is as important as its three dimensional shape He often adds holes and openings to the sculpture. Moore also contrasts brightness by bending the bronze character inside and out.