A collection that reveals the life and times of some of the most important and influential artists of the modern world. The book includes a chronological structure illustrated with contemporary color and black-and-white photographs. It also has a det ...
A collection that reveals the life and times of some of the most important and influential artists of the modern world. The book includes a chronological structure illustrated with contemporary color and black-and-white photographs. It also has a detailed timeline for quick reference, plus museum and gallery information. From classical to contemporary, from impressionism to pop art, painters and sculptors from every era, every movement and every country in the world are represented in this excellent collection that brings children intimate portraits of the world's most famous artists and fascinating times. They lived! Full color reproductions included! Primitive masks, classical Italian sculptures, mathematical forms, even stories of kings, queens and princesses all inspired the son of a Yorkshire miner throughout his career. Learn about the life and work of avant-garde sculptor Henry Moore.
Henry Spencer Moore (born July 30, 1898 – August 31, 1986) was an English artist and sculptor.
He was born in a poor mining family in Castleford, Yorkshire. Moore owes his fame to carved marble and cast bronze sculptures, usually large in size and abstract subjects.
Moore has been an influential person in creating the process of modernism in British art.
His other fame is in the field of painting. His paintings of people living in underground shelters during World War II are of special importance.
He was also a member of the "Unit One" group; which was formed in England in 1933.
The reason for the strange shape of Henry's sculptures, which is mostly a woman with a small head and a large body, is that Henry massaged his mother's back and back as a child, and this feeling he had from this incident that happened in his childhood was recorded in his subconscious mind and Adulthood is expressed by his sculptures
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