Henry Moore

(noun)

(1898 – 1986) an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.

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Examples of Henry Moore in the following topics:

  • Sculpture

    • Brâncuşi's impact, through his vocabulary of reduction and abstraction, is seen throughout the 1930s and 1940s, exemplified by artists including Gaston Lachaise , Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore , Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Julio González, Pablo Serrano, and Jacques Lipchitz.

  • Abstract Sculpture

    • Others were quick to follow Braque and Picasso's lead in Paris, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Alexander Archipenko, Joseph Csaky, Jacques Lipchitz, Henri Laurens and Ossip Zadkine.
    • Brâncuşi's impact, with his vocabulary of reduction and abstraction, is seen throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and exemplified by artists including Gaston Lachaise, Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Ásmundur Sveinsson, Julio González, Pablo Serrano, and Jacques Lipchitz.

  • Fauvism

    • The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain .
    • Apart from Matisse and Derain, other artists included Albert Marquet, Charles Camoin, Louis Valtat, the Belgian painter Henri Evenepoel, Maurice Marinot, Jean Puy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Henri Manguin, Raoul Dufy, Othon Friesz, Georges Rouault, the Dutch painter Kees van Dongen, the Swiss painter Alice Bailly, and Georges Braque (subsequently Picasso's partner in Cubism).

  • Expressive and Symbolic Uses of Color

    • A select few examples of this practice include les Fauves and abstract expressionists, along with artists Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
    • The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and Andre Derain.
    • Henri Matisse is widely regarded as the greatest colorist of the 20th century, and as a rival to Picasso in the importance of his innovations.
    • A Fauvist painting by Henri Matisse.

  • English Painting in the Northern Renaissance

    • The artists of the Tudor court were the painters and limners engaged by the English monarchs' Tudor dynasty and their courtiers between 1485 and 1603 (from the reign of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I).
    • Horenbout's portrait miniature of Katharine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII, with its relatively flat subject matter and gold outlines, bears a closer resemblance to illuminated manuscripts than to the realistically modeled classical style appearing elsewhere in Europe at the time.
    • Possibly the best known painter employed in the court of Henry VIII was the German artist Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543), who worked in the style of the Northern Renaissance.
    • By 1533, when Holbein painted his famous double portrait The Ambassadors, Henry VIII had severed the Church of England from Rome when the Pope refused to allow the king to divorce Katharine of Aragon and marry Anne Boelyn.
    • Because Henry VIII's only surviving son had died during his adolescence, the English law of succession had to be amended to allow Elizabeth and her elder sister Mary access to the throne.

  • American Painting: The Ashcan School

    • Five artists of The Eight, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John French Sloan became associated with the Ashcan School.
    • Everett Shinn, Robert Henri and John Sloan, c. 1896 (unidentified photographer, black and white print, 18 x 13 cm.)

  • Painting and Sculpture

    • Leading figures of the Ashcan school included Robert Henri, George Bellows, Everett Shinn, George Benjamin Luks, William Glackens, and John Sloan .
    • John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Alfred Henry Maurer, Arthur B.
    • Carles, Arthur Dove, Henrietta Shore, Stuart Davis, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Morgan Russell, Patrick Henry Bruce, and Gerald Murphy were some important early American modernist painters.
    • Irving Couse, William Henry Jackson, Marsden Hartley, Andrew Dasburg, and Georgia O'Keeffe were some of the more prolific artists of the Southwest.

  • Dover Castle in England

    • It was during the reign of Henry II that the castle began to take recognizable shape.
    • They were improved by Henry VIII, who added the Moat Bulwark to the castle.

  • The Harlem Renaissance

    • Visual artists of the time included Charles Alston, Henry Bannarn, Leslie Bolling, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, and Archibold Motley .
    • Charles Henry Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977) was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in Harlem.

  • Germany and the United States

    • Robert Henri (a member of the Aschan School), Snow in New York 1902, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
    • Everett Shinn, Robert Henri and John Sloan, c. 1896 (unidentified photographer, black and white print, 18 x 13 cm).