Henry Spencer Moore foi um escultor e desenhista britânico que desenvolveu uma obra tridimensional predominantemente figurativa, com breves incursões pela abstração.
Filho de um engenheiro de minas, Moore se tornou conhecido por suas esculturas abstratas em grande escala, de bronze fundido e de mármore. Substancialmente sustentado pela instituição de arte britânica, Moore ajudou a introduzir uma forma especial de modernismo no Reino Unido.
Recebeu as condecorações Ordem de Mérito, Ordem dos Companheiros de Honra e fazia parte da Federação de Artistas Britânicos .
Freqüentou o Leeds College of Art e o Royal College of Art de Londres. Sua primeira exposição individual ocorreu em Londres, em 1928, onde apresentou 42 esculturas e 51 desenhos.
Foi influenciado sobretudo pela arte mexicana pré-colombiana, assim como pela arte arcaica e renascentista, pelo Surrealismo e pelo Construtivismo. A essa cultura visual vasta e multiforme do artista soma-se uma sensível capacidade de análise da natureza.
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“Em certa medida, toda arte é uma abstração.”
All art is an abstraction to some degree.
Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings - Página xxxix, de Henry Moore, Herbert Edward Read, Herbert Read, Alan Bowness - Publicado por Lund Humphries, 1949 - 44 páginas
“Depois do rosto, as mãos são a parte do corpo humano que mais obviamente expressa a emoção.”
Hands, after the face, are the most obvious part of the human body for expressing emotion.
Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations: Writings and Conversations - Página 220, de Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson - Publicado por University of California Press, 2002, ISBN 0520231619, 9780520231610 - 320 páginas
“A verdadeira base da vida está nas relações humanas.”
The real basis of life is human relationships
Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations: Writings and Conversations, de Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson - 2002 - 320 páginas
1970 and later
Fonte: Eric Maisel, Ann Maisel (2010) Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions. p. 95
Fonte: 1925 - 1940, The sculptor speaks' (1937), pp. 254-255
Quote in 'The Listener', 13 November 1941, pp. 657-9; as cited in Henry Moore writings and Conversations, ed. Alan Wilkinson, University of California Press, California 2002, p. 126
1940 - 1955
Quote in 'Unpublished notes' 1951, HMF Archive; as cited in Henry Moore writings and Conversations, ed. Alan Wilkinson, University of California Press, California 2002, p. 121
1940 - 1955
Henry Moore, Sir Herbert Edward Read, David Sylvester (1957) Henry Moore: 1921-1948, p. xxxi
1955 - 1970
Quote from Moore's letter, (15 Jan. 1955); as cited in Henry Moore on Sculpture: a Collection of the Sculptor's Writings and Spoken Words, ed. Philip James, MacDonald, London 1966, p. 250
1940 - 1955
Quote of Henri Moore in his interview with David Silvester, in 'The Sunday Times Magazine', 16 Febr. 1964, pp. 18, 20-22
1955 - 1970
critic on the idea of pure Abstract art by Moore
1940 - 1955
Fonte: 'Unpublished notes' for 'Art and Life', 1941, HMR Archive; as quoted in Henry Moore writings and Conversations, edited by Alan Wilkinson, University of California Press, California 2002, p. 114
Quote of Moore from his text 'The sculptor speaks' (1937), p. unknown
1925 - 1940
in 'Partisan Review', New York, March-April 1947
1940 - 1955
Quote of Moore, 1978; as cited in Henry Moore writings and Conversations, ed. Alan Wilkinson, University of California Press, California 2002, pp. 32-33
1970 and later
Quote in 'The Listener', 13 November 1941, pp. 657-9; as cited in Henry Moore writings and Conversations, ed. Alan Wilkinson, University of California Press, California 2002, pp. 126-27
1940 - 1955
“What is a cave? A cave is a shape. It’s not the lump of mountain over it.”
Quote from: 'Henry Moore's World', Carlton Lake, 'Atlantic Monthly' Bonston, Jan. 1962 p. 45
1955 - 1970
Quote from 'Henry Moore', an interview by Donald, in 'Horizon', New York, Nov. 1960
1955 - 1970
Quote of Moore in 'Partisan Review', New York, March-April 1947
1940 - 1955
Quote of Henri Moore in 'Unpublished notes', c. 1925-1926, HMF archive; as cited in Henry Moore writings and Conversations, ed. Alan Wilkinson, University of California Press, California 2002, p. 96
1925 - 1940
Fonte: 1925 - 1940, Unpublished notes' for 'The Sculptor Speaks' (1937), p. 113
Quote from The Donald Caroll interviews, Talmy Franklin, London 1973, p. 377
1970 and later
Elizabeth Day, "The Moore Legacy," http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/jul/27/1 The Observer (2008-07-27),
Henry Moore is quoted here by Mary Moore, the artist's niece
1970 and later
Quote of Moore in 'Conversations with Henri Moore', J.P. Hodin, in 'The Observer', 24 Nov. 1958
1955 - 1970
Quote in 'Conversations with Henri Moore', J.P. Hodin, in 'The Observer', 24 Nov. 1958
1955 - 1970
Fonte: 1925 - 1940, The sculptor speaks' (1937), p. 251
Fonte: 1925 - 1940, The sculptor speaks' (1937), p. 253
1970 and later
Fonte: The Donald Caroll interviews, Talmy Franklin, London 1973, p. 378
Quote of Henri Moore in 'The Listener', 24 April 1941, pp. 598-9; as cited in Henry Moore writings and Conversations, ed. Alan Wilkinson, University of California Press, California 2002, p. 104
1940 - 1955
Fonte: 1925 - 1940, The sculptor speaks' (1937), p. 255
Fonte: 1925 - 1940, Unpublished notes' for 'The Sculptor Speaks' (1937), p. 123
1970 and later
Fonte: 'The Sunday Times', 25 May 1975; as quoted in Henry Moore writings and Conversations, ed. Alan Wilkinson, University of California Press, California 2002, p. 121
1955 - 1970
