Moore Henry Biography

The art sculptor and innovator Henry Moore for many years has been a real legend of Great Britain. Most of his work was dedicated to female figures, and for him the main model for him was the beloved wife of Irina Radadskaya for him. В своих картинах он мастерски передавал реалии войны и при этом ратовал за торжество жизни, вплетая свои скульптуры в природный ландшафт. Moore also loved to draw fluffy sheep, which became for him a symbol of the open spaces of his native England.

AFISHA magazine. London recalls the iconic stages of Henry Moore and the features of his “plastic” creativity. For more than 70 years, art objects of the work of Henry Moore have been considered works of the highest skill and are appreciated around the world. In the year, the artist received an international prize for the sculpture of the lying figure at Venetian Biennale and was declared the greatest sculptor of the 20th century in the year.

Without a doubt, Moore is one of the most influential figures in contemporary art, and he is also a vivid example of how the timid children's dream turned into deafening success and world recognition. The young romantic in life and in the war seems to be that all the great personalities from childhood knew their purpose, this happened with young Henry Mur. The future sculptor was born on July 30 in the family of a miner in the town of Castllford in West Yorkshire.

Already at the age of 11, he was inspired by the works of Michelangelo and cherished the dream of becoming a great sculptor, but fate ordered that he first had to meet with the First World War. As Henry himself recalls, he went through the war in a romantic haze in an attempt to become a hero. He became the youngest soldier in the rifle regiment of Prince of Wales and was even poisoned by gases in the famous battle of Cambrais in France.

Many years later, during the Second World War, he will radically change his opinion and will consider the war anti-life. He will convey the new perception of a confident celebration of life in his sculptures, which will organically weave into the landscape and seem natural creations of nature. Photo: Tate but so far Moore was only in the way of forming his style, which now has no analogues in the world.

As a former military man, he received a grant to continue his education and entered the School of Arts in Lids in the year, and then continued his studies at the Royal Art College of London. After graduating from his studies, he visited Northern Italy, who had a huge impact on him, and Paris, where he became interested in a copy of the outlandish Toltekic figures of Chuck-Mole, which became prototypes of his work.

See also: Roald Dahl is not only fascinating books, but also a museum! Having returned, Moore remained to work in college as a teacher in the sculpture department, it was during this period - from year to years - the first strokes of his original style appeared, and its main materials were stone and wood. Life in London in the 10ths allowed the artist to plunge with his head in past eras and move away from the classics stubbornly sung by his academic mentors.

He enthusiastically visited the National Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery and the Ethnographic exhibitions of the British Museum; He studied the ancient art of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Mexico of the pre -Columbus period, admiring the plastic of these civilizations. Acquaintance with the muse and a new life work in the royal art college connected Henry with the future wife - Irina Radadskaya, who was his student.

Irina was born in a Russian-Polish family in the year in Kyiv and then studied at a ballet school in Moscow, but during a revolution in Russia in the year she lost her father and was forced to emigrate to Paris after her mother, where she married a British officer. In the UK, Irina turned out to be when she moved to the relatives of her stepfather in the bakingemshire border with London.

Her acquaintance with Mur coincided with his first personal exhibition in the year in the London Gallery of Warren. Henry Moore and Irina Radadskaya. Photo: Henry Moore Foundation “Sliding Figure” photo: National Galleries of Scotland in those years, art still experienced the conservative romanticism of the Victorian era, and a lot of accusations in the immorality of his creations and the distortion of human forms flew in the young sculptor.

However, in spite of everything, the sculptor continued to go his own way, feeling that he was creating a completely new style that carries powerful life energy, free from the shackles of classical traditions. See also: Hampstead and Highgate: two elite “rustic” twinths on neighboring hills, Moore drew special inspiration in the forms of a female figure, and the Ukrainian lover became his unchanged model.

His artistic view compared the female body with a natural landscape, where the knees and chest resembled mountains, ovals of shoulders and hips - hills, and the voids symbolized the caves. One of his most famous female sculptures is the “lying figure”, made in five copies of different materials. The bronze version of the sculpture was first exhibited on the southern shore of Thames as part of the British festival in the year and is now stored in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.Makar 2 x PX A, meanwhile, Moore’s novel with his first and only muse Irina quickly grew into a strong alliance, and the couple got married in the year.

After the wedding, the young moved to the studio in Hampstead at 11a Parkhill Road, where they lived up to a year, which is the blue memorial plate installed on the house. At that time, Hampsted with his huge park and a life close to the village was a haven for artists of avant-garde, which Henry Moore and his wife joined. By the way, Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova also lived in this area, about whom Afisha magazine.

London has a separate article. Henry Moore at work in his house in Hampsted. Photo: Henry Moore Foundation Again the war and the new facets of art, the Second World War made the next adjustments to the artist’s measured life - in the year in their house in Hampsted, a bomb fell, and the couple moved to Hartfordshire. However, it is during this period that Henry Moore gains fame as a military artist and becomes popular outside of Great Britain: his graphic sketches are scattered around the world that captured Londoners who took refuge from the Nazi bombing in the gloomy tunnels of the London metro in -41 years.

Henry Moore - Tube Shelter Perspective in the year, part of the military sketches was shown at the Henry Moore exhibition in the Hermitage. Sculpture and drawings ”in St. Petersburg, where the curators spent parallels between Moore’s military graphics and drawings of architect Alexander Nikolsky, created in the basements of the Hermitage during the blockade of Leningrad.

One of the versions of this motive in the work of Moore - the surreal sculpture “Mother and Child”, made in marble - can be seen in the Cathedral of St. Paul in London. Another source of inspiration for the artist was, oddly enough, fluffy sheep. The village of Perry Green in Hartfordshire, where Moore settled with his family, pleased him with spacious pastures, on which sheep freely grazed.

Once the artist from the window of his workshop watched the sheep roaming around and knocked out the window, attracting the attention of one of them. The sheep raised her head for a couple of moments, and Moore managed to make a sketch that laid the beginning of his series of sketches and drawings of sheep, which then moved to the sculpture. Henry Moore - King and Queen Photo: Tate, but perhaps Moore has become one of the most striking and romantic creations to this day, the bronze sculpture “King and the Queen” of the year remains, the reason for the creation of which was an important stage in the history of Great Britain - the death of the beloved by the people of Georg VI and the accession to the throne of his daughter Elizabeth II.

Models for the sculpture were the artist and his wife Irina, and the inspiration was double statues of men and women from ancient Egypt, symbolizing stability and wisdom. The sculpture had six castings, and one of them was exhibited in the British Gallery of Tate in London. The monastery of the artist in Perry Green at Perry's estate Green Henry Moore lived for almost half a century and gradually turned the surrounding space into the most large-scale example of public art in the UK.

My wife Irina, with rapture, was engaged in the landscape design of the garden at their house, and Moore created his bizarre sculptures from metal and stone and weaved them into the riot of the surrounding elements. Until November 3, Perry Green is open to visits: guests can inspect the artist’s workshops and house, take a walk along the famous garden gallery and look at more than 70 acres of gardens and fields around, where the artist’s monumental creations are installed.

The headquarters of his nominal fund, which the sculptor founded during his lifetime, was also based in the former House of Moore, and appointed the wife and daughter of Mary. Photo: Henry Moore Foundation during walking along London easily by chance to meet one of the monuments of Moore: in Kensington gardens, his stone “arch” rises, on the embankment near the Tate Britain museum is a “locking element”, and another famous sculpture, a “cut of a knife of two parts”, is located on the contrary House of Lords of the British Parliament.

In Russia, they were able to evaluate the entire palette of the artist’s work only in the year, when on February 21, in the museums of the Moscow Kremlin, the full -fledged retrospective of the works of Henry Moore, who arrived from the collections of his nominal fund, the Tate Gallery, the British Museum and private collections, was first opened. The guest of the event was the daughter of the sculptor Mary Moore.