What exactly is the figure in the sculpture, Reclining Figure (Wood) by Henry Moore?
Need your help for my art appreciation class. Please tell me something about the said sculpture.
reclining nude woman (direct carving...not modeling)
it conveys the ambiguity between abstraction and figuration and exemplifies a recurring motif in Moore's work--the reclining figure.
some stuff from the net about the influence of the style:
In the 1930s, the work of Pablo Picasso and of contemporary abstract artists were strong influences; many of Moore’s works of that period are highly abstract, consisting of simplified, rounded pieces carved from wood, with numerous indentations and holes often spanned with veils of thin metal wires. The most important and lasting influence on Moore’s work, however, was the world of nature. “The human figure,” he later wrote, “is what interests me most deeply, but I have found principles of form and rhythm from the study of natural objects, such as pebbles, rocks, bones, trees, plants.”
In his mature works, beginning with Reclining Figure (1936, City Art Gallery, Wakefield, England), Moore employed swelling shapes, undulating extensions, and rounded indentations that mirror natural forms. His favored themes include mother-and-child and family groups, fallen warriors, and, most characteristically, the reclining human figure, which he continued to depict throughout his career
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