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Henry Moore byl anglický sochař a kreslíř. Je známý především svými velkými figurálními plastikami, které jsou umístěny ve veřejném prostoru v různých částech světa. Většinou jde o silně stylizovaná zpodobnění lidského těla, typický je například námět „matka a dítě“ nebo „ležící figura“. Kromě krátkého období v padesátých letech, kdy Moore vytvářel rodinná sousoší, modeloval převážně ženské figury. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. červenec 1898 – 31. srpen 1986
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Henry Moore nejznámější citáty

„Lidská postava je to, oč se co nejhlouběji zajímám, ale zákony tvrau a rytmu jsem našel při studiu přírodních objektů, kamenů, skal, stromů, rostlin atd.“

Zdroj: Walther Ingo, F., Umění 20. století, Taschen/Slovart, Praha 2011, s. 484, ISBN 978-80-7391-572-8

Henry Moore: Citáty anglicky

“The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.”

1970 and later
Zdroj: Eric Maisel, ‎Ann Maisel (2010) Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions. p. 95

“The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form-knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration”

Henry Moore, ‎Sir Herbert Edward Read, ‎David Sylvester (1957) Henry Moore: 1921-1948, p. xxxi
1955 - 1970

“The idea for [his sculpture] 'The Warrior' came to me at the end of 1952 or very early in 1953. It was evolved from a pebble I found on the seashore in the summer of 1952, and which reminded me of the stump of a leg, amputated at the hip. Just as Leonardo says somewhere in his notebooks that a painter can find a battle scene in the lichen marks on a wall, so this gave me the start of The Warrior idea. First I added the body, leg and one arm and it became a wounded warrior, but at first the figure was reclining. A day or two later I added a shield and altered its position and arrangement into a seated figure and so it changed from an inactive pose into a figure which, though wounded, is still defiant... The head has a blunted and bull-like power but also a sort of dumb animal acceptance and forbearance of pain... The figure may be emotionally connected (as one critic has suggested) with one’s feelings and thoughts about England during the crucial and early part of the last war. The position of the shield and its angle gives protection from above. The distance of the shield from the body and the rectangular shape of the space enclosed between the inside surface of the shield and the concave front of the body is important... This sculpture is the first single and separate male figure that I have done in sculpture and carrying it out in its final large scale was almost like the discovery of a new subject matter; the bony, edgy, tense forms were a great excitement to make... Like the bronze 'Draped Reclining Figure' of 1952-3 I think 'The Warrior' has some Greek influence, not consciously wished…”

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

“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

“The Negroes.... their unique claim for admiration is their power to produce form completely in the round... Negro sculpture is completely in the round, fully-conceived air-surrounded form.”

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

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