Thursday 21 May 2009

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Recumbent Figure 1938Green Hornton stoneobject: 889 x 1327 x 737 mm, 520 kg sculpture Presented by the Contemporary Art Society

This is one of the earliest works in which Moore shows the female figure undulating like the landscape. It was commissioned by the architect Serge Chermayeff to stand on the terrace of his home on the Downs. Visually, the figure would have acted as a bridge between the rolling hills and the ultra-modern house. Moore, like others, used many native British stones at this time. This Hornton stone came from a quarry near Banbury in Oxfordshire.

Tuesday 12 May 2009

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"Another Place"is a massive installation on Crosby Beach that consists of 100 cast-iron figures, moulded from the artists own body in the style that has become synonymous with his work. The ghostly life-size figures are dotted along three kilometres of the Crosby shore, sparse in some areas and getting more congregated as they reach the sea front, so onlookers can catch the detail of those near and the shadow of sculptures in the distance out to sea in one eyeful.
Art is a wonderful thing. Staues and painting can express feeling of one anothers. The feeling is demonstrated by the colour, texture and shape of the object.

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Chatterton 1856
Oil on canvas support: 622 x 933 mm frame: 905 x 1205 x 132 mm painting.

This highly romanticised picture created a sensation when it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856.