Henry Moore in his artist quotes on sculpture & life in England - free resource, English art history

Henry Moore quotes - the English artist on modern sculpture art and his artistic life in England, 1930’s - 1950’s - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in English art history

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Henry Moore’s quotes clarify his characteristic position in artistic England, by combining Surrealism and Abstract art. Moore refused to choose for one or the other. He wanted to realize a mixture of both in his sculpture art. In his view Surrealism offered a lot of freedom for the creative side of man, for surprise and for mans consciousness.

Moore reveals here his strong fascination for old Mexican and Mayan sculpture art, because ‘…these sculptors carved in sympathy with the stone itself’. Moreover, his quotes illustrate his love as sculptor artist for the Natural Forms.
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Some selected quotes of English artist Henry Moore - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’I prefer Mexican to Mayan sculpture. Mexican stone sculptures have largeness of scale & a grim, sublime, austerity, a real stoniness. They were the true sculptors in sympathy with their material…’ - Moore’s quote, from his unpublished Notes, c. 1925-1926, HMF archive

• ’I have always paid great attention to natural forms, such as bones, shells, and pebbles, etc. Sometimes for several years running I have been to the same part of the seashore – but each year a new shape of pebble has caught my eye’… .Pebbles show Nature’s way of working stone. Some of the pebbles I pick up have holes right through them… - quote from Moore’s text, ‘The sculptor speaks’, 1937

• ’I find myself lined up with the surrealists because Surrealism means freedom for the creative side of man, for surprise & discovery & life, for an opening out & widening of mans consciousness, for changing life & against conserving worn out traditions, for variety not a uniformity, for opening not closing’ -quote of Moore in: ‘The Sculptor Speaks’ 1937, HMF Archive, England, p. 123
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  selection of free art-resources on the English sculptor artist Henry Moore:

  • biographical notes on Henry Moore, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moore
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Moore, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Moore
  • images of the painting art of Henri Moore, Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/henry-moore
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]