Henry Moore
In this sense, Moore was the contemporary equivalent of the great Neo Classical sculptors
such as Canova and Thorwaldsen.
Moore was born in Castleford as the son of a mining engineer. He became well-known
through his large-scale abstract cast bronze and carved marble sculptures, and was
instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom. His
ability in later life to fulfill large-scale commissions made him exceptionally wealthy. Yet he
lived frugally and most of the money he earned went towards supporting the Henry Moore
Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts.
His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child
or lying figures. Reclining line was even considered as his signature. 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
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