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Henry Moore: His Biography, his Sculptures and Art History
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 THE MEANING POWER OF HENRY MOORE-'S SCULPTURES - THE OUTDOORS SCULPTURES
" The purpose of my sculpture is not beauty such as it is understood
by the artists of classic Greece and the Renaissance. there is an enormous difference between the beauty of the expression
and the power of the expression. The former tends to satisfy senses. The later possesses a vitality of the spirit which, in
my opinion, is deeper and more suggestive... "
It is outdoors that the artist imagined, immersed them in the nature.
According to him, sculptures are as human beings: they need space; it is necessary for them "to breathe". " They owe. He says,
to support the cold of winter, the warmth of summer, the fog and the sun, in the daytime and at night. " Artificial light;
Indoor they suffocate and they are "betraid".
Henry Moore likes above all working outside, because he has the impression to
repeat, in a certain way , the creative activity of the nature.He finds there the dominant lines and the structures of the
works. Being inspired by pebbles polished with waters, by fragments of cliffs in asymmetric forms, hollow shells in the harmonious
curves, trunks, bones... They are treasures that Moore preserves.
There, were born his "ideas", represented with tiny models of clay. When they
took shape in the stone, the alabaster, the bronze, the wood or the metal - in a more important studio where art craft men
helped him -, it is still the nature which taught him the secrets of the relief. It incited him to polish the stone, as the
sea by transporting the small pebbles, to ease their outlines, to turn the wood by respecting knots and veins, to give to
the metal the roughness of a shell.
Henry Moore remains a "modern" which knew how to rediscover certain meanings
of the primitive art. All his life he will remain faithful in what constitutes the fundamental motive of his inspiration:
affinity with the nature.
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