Henry Moore 1898 -1986 Was a Sculptor

Henry Moore In 1919 He Shortly after they people sheltering in 1898-1986 was a became the first married, the couple London’s sculptor born in student of moved to Hampstead underground during Castleford, sculpture at the joining a small the blitz. The couple Yorkshire the son Leeds College of community of artist soon moved to of a mining Art and Design including Hepworth Hertfordshire where engineer. where he met and an art critic who they settled and had His sculptures are Barbara helped raise Moore’s a daughter. usually of the Hepworth who profile. His focus on family human form, also became a Moore became the life could be seen in typically reclining well known sculptor. Head of the many of his figures He attended the Department of sculptures depicting The demand for his Royal College of Art. Sculpture at the “mother and child” work later in his life Both Moore and made him very Hepworth had a wealthy though he similarity in that their lived frugally putting work used natural most of his money forms, landscapes and into the Henry Moore figurative modeling of Chelsea school of Art When Moore's niece Foundation which people and animals. for a wHis work asked why his continues to support Moore enjoyed the became more abstract sculptures had such education and art. method of direct perhaps owing to the simple titles, he Moore was called to carving, in which influential contacts replied, " All art should the army and was imperfections in the he’d made with have a certain mystery injured in 1917 and material and marks left artists such as Pablo and should make saw out the by tools became part Picasso and he demands on the remainder of the war of the finished transitioned from spectator”. in Britain. sculpture. direct carving to He also undertook casting in bronze. a teaching post at The Second World the Royal College War broke out and of Art where he Moore was met his wife, Irina commissioned as a Radetsky, a war artist depicting painting student. powerful images of The last three decades of Moore's life continued with several major exhibitions. Moore declined a Knighthood in 1951 because he felt that "such a title might tend to cut me off from fellow artists " Henry Moore died on 31 August, 1986, at the age of 88, in his home in Hertfordshire. His body is in the Artists' Corner at St Pauls Cathedral. Most sculptors who emerged during the height of Moore's fame, and in the aftermath of his death, found themselves cast in his shadow.