Yorkshire Sculpture International at Leeds Art Gallery and the Henry Moore Institute
A celebration of sculpture in all its forms, Yorkshire Sculpture International is presented by four world-renowned cultural institutions based in Leeds and Wakefield – Leeds Art Gallery, the Henry Moore Institute, The Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, across 100 days this summer.
This first festival builds upon Yorkshire’s rich history as the birthplace of pioneering sculptors, including Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, and as the home of this unique consortium of galleries and celebrated sculpture collections.
Reflecting the theme put forward by British artist Phyllida Barlow that ‘sculpture is the most anthropological of the artforms’ this free festival responds to the idea that there is a basic human impulse to make and connect with objects, and the programme will explore what it means to create sculpture today.
At Leeds Art Gallery, we are showing new work by Nobuko Tsuchiya, Rachel Harrison, Joanna Piotrowska and Damien Hirst. Turkish artist Ayse Erkman has created a site specific installation for the Central Court Gallery, and the Woodwork: A Family Tree of Sculpture exhibition explores the idea of wood as the most human of materials.
At the Henry Moore Institute, see stunning installations by artists Tamar Harpaz, Rashid Johnson, Maria Loboda, Sean Lynch and Cauleen Smith.
Yorkshire Sculpture International is on until the 29 September. To find out more, visit:
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Music Kenny Jenkins
The Director's Cut: Lisa Le Feuvre, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
The fourth in our series is an interview with Lisa Le Feuvre, Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, who, after less than six months in her post, is already challenging the Institute to find new possibilities by flirting with failure.
Lisa Le Feuvre is obsessed with failure -- she's even edited a book on the subject. It is, she argues, something to be embraced rather than feared. As the Californian conceptual artist John Baldessari puts it: Art comes out of failure. You have to try things out.
Le Feuvre is all for trying stuff out. She's not the type to be content with everything being OK, with just trundling along. She exudes urgency and energy. She wants to get things done.
The curator and academic has been at the helm of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds for less than six months. In that time she's been taking stock, assessing the shape the organisation is in. (She's also been curating her first show for the Institute, featuring the work of Italian Arte Povera sculptor, Mario Merz).
Le Feuvre says she likes what she sees at the Institute. Of course that doesn't mean she hasn't got change, and maybe a bit of disruption, on her mind. You sense that she has. Although she believes the organisation is very good at what it does, she wants it to be even better....
Read the full text by Chris Sharratt at axisweb.org/the-directors-cut/lisa-le-feuvre
Director's Favorites: Reclining Figure by Henry Moore
DIA Director Graham Beal takes viewers on a personal tour of some of his favorite works in the museum.With one of the largest (over 60,000 works) and most significant collections of any art museum in the nation it's hard to narrow down to just a few.
Henry Moore 亨利·摩爾 The foremost British sculptor 1898–1986)
Henry Moore 亨利·摩爾 The foremost British sculptor 1898–1986)
Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He is best known for his abstract bronze sculptures which are located in various prominent public places. He became the most influential and famous sculptor of his generation.
Henry Moore Short Biography
Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control, almost like God creating something.
– Henry Moore
Henry Moore was born on 30 July, 1898, in Castleford, Yorkshire. He was the seventh child in a family of 8 children. His father worked in a colliery in Castleford but wanted his children to avoid working down the mines, so as much as possible given the family’s poverty, the children were educated at a local school.
It was in his teenage years that he developed an interest and talent in art. This helped him to get a scholarship to Castleford Secondary school. Aged 18 he was called up to the army and in 1917 was injured during a gas attack at the Battle of Cambrai. After his injury, he spent the remainder of the war behind the line training new recruits. Moore later said the war was for him not a traumatic experience – unlike that of many of his contemporaries.
After the war, he continued his education and in 1921 won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art. He didn’t regret his late opportunity to attend art school.
I’m very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21… I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.
– Henry Moore
Henry Moore was a talented student, but already he was experimenting with new styles and this often conflicted with his teachers who were trying to teach the classic style – of perfection in form and composition. Moore was attracted to a more spontaneous art form with imperfections evident in the sculpting. In 1924, he spent time travelling in Italy and later Paris. Here he could view the great Masters such as Michelangelo and Giovanni Pisano. But, Moore was also influenced by his studies of primitive art, and at the Louvre he was particularly influenced by the Toltec-Maya sculptural form, the Chac Mool.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
-Henry Moore
On his return to London, he took up a teaching post at the Royal College of art. This part time post enabled him to work on his own art, leading to his first commissions such as the West Wind – 1928-29.
In the 1930s, Moore became an active member of the informal modern art movement, centred around the ideas and innovation of people like Pablo Picasso and Jean Arp. He also briefly flirted with the surrealist movement.
The Second World War led to more traditional commissions and Moore worked as a war artist producing memorable pictures such as images of civilians fleeing the Blitz in the London underground.
This helped Moore’s reputation and after the war led to numerous awards and opportunities in America. In 1948 he was awarded the International Sculpture Prize at the Venice Biennale. Significant commissions included.
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens,Perry Green, Hertfordshire .
The Henry Moore Foundation is a registered charity in England, established for education and promotion of the fine arts — in particular, to advance understanding of the works of Henry Moore. The charity was set up with a gift from the artist in 1977. The Foundation supports a wide range of projects, including student bursaries, fellowships for artists and financial grants to various arts institutions. It operates from Perry Green in Hertfordshire and at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, England.
Henry Moore and Picasso
A new exhiibition underlining relationship between Picasso and modern British art and artists brings fascinating works by Henry Moore and Picasso to the atention of visitors and art lovers. The exhibition highlights how Picasso's work has influenced Henry Moore's. For more similar videos, please visit and subscribe to both youtube.com/londonperspectives and youtube.com/londravizyon
Fascinating look at early Henry Moore sculptures - Katherine Nash
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Masterpiece works by Henry Moore will be unveiled at a new £7m development at the sculptor’s former home in Hertfordshire.
Moore’s first ever commissions will go on display to the public for the first time at the redeveloped Henry Moore Studios and Gardens, which opens on Good Friday.
Moore, famed for his monumental bronze sculptures, lived at the 17th-century farmhouse in the hamlet of Perry Green, for nearly 50 years.
A new exhibition, Becoming Henry Moore, to mark the opening of a state-of-the-art new visitor centre at the artist’s 70-acre estate, will present work by Moore rarely seen since his student days.
Katherine Nash reports.
Alastair Sook on Henry Moore and the Festival of Britain
Commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain for the 1951 Festival of Britain, Reclining Figure: Festival served as a focal point of London's newly-built South Bank, coming, for many, to represent the resilience and inventiveness of the British people in the wake of the Second World War.
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'Henry Moore - the Printmaker'
David Mitchinson, former Head of Collections at the Henry Moore Foundation and the artist's long standing friend, introduces the exhibition of selected prints and sculptures from the British Council Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Skopje, Macedonia)
Henry Moore - The Language of Sculpture (1973 von John Read) (engl.)
Henry Moore reflects on his origins and his life's work. BBC 1967, Producer: John Read. First Broadcast: 11. November 1967 The third of six profiles of Henry Moore made by producer John Read.
A close look at the famous 1972 exhibition of Moore's work in Florence. BBC 1973, Producer: John Read. First Broadcast: 01 January 1974. This programme observes people examining Henry Moore's.
Henry Moore gives a private viewing of his sketches. BBC 1978, Producer: John Read. First Broadcast: 30 July 1978 To mark Henry Moore's 80th birthday, filmmaker John Read revisits the artist's.
Sculptor - Henry Moore - Thames Television
Renowned sculptor and artist Henry Moore OM. Speaks to the Thames Television's 'Fusion' programme. It gives a fascinating insight into how the artist created some of his most famous works. Filmed at the artist's studio and foundry in 1971, this programme was first shown on Thames television in 21/09/1971
Henry Moore Sculpture - Reclining Woman: Elbow 1981 - Leeds
Here is Henry Moores Bronze sculpture Reclining Woman: Elbow 1981 Located outside of the Leeds City Art Gallery, on The Headrow in Leeds City Centre.
It is among Moores last large scale reclining figures, at 221cm long.
He selected it as particularly appropriate for display on the exterior entrance terrace to the Moore Sculpture Gallery extension to Leeds City Art Gallery, which was opened in November 1982 by Her Majesty The Queen in the sculptor's presence.
Moore visited Leeds to arrange the siting of the sculpture prior to it's arrival, against the art galleries Yorkshire limestone wall backdrop, and he was wheeled up and down the piazza in his wheelchair until the right location was decided on by using two members of the Foundation to Pose as the sculpture to help him decide!.
Henry Moore Institute | What is Sculpture Now? | Susan PhillipszMay 2014
Lecture: What is Sculpture Now? with Susan Philllipsz Henry Moore Institute 21 May 2014
Henry Moore - The Language of Sculpture (1973 von John Read) (engl.)
Henry Moore - A Sculptor's Landscape (1958 von John Read) engl. Henry Moore's work shown amid the natural landscape that inspired him. BBC 1958, Producer: John Read. First Broadcast: 29 June.
A close look at the famous 1972 exhibition of Moore's work in Florence. BBC 1973, Producer: John Read. First Broadcast: 01 January 1974. This programme observes people examining Henry Moore's.
Henry Moore - Porträt 1951 von John Read 'Art is the expression of imagination and not the imitation of life.' BBC 1951, Produzent: John Read This documentary introduces us to Henry Moore.
1913 The Shape Of Time Henry Moore Institute February 2013
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Sculptor Henry Moore exhibit opens in London
Carved in abstract lines and undulating curves, the reclining human figure was the key image of the work of one of Britain's greatest artists. The late Henry Moore is celebrated in a new exhibition at London's Tate Britain which brings together over 150 of the artist's stone sculptures, wood carvings, bronzes and drawings, and takes a fresh look at the influential sculptor's legacy. Duration: 01:53.
Henry Moore: Reclining Figures
Frances Guy, Head of Collections and Exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield, provides an introduction to the collection display, 'Henry Moore: Reclining Figures'.
Henry Moore is known for his lifelong fascination with the human figure, a subject that allowed him to explore and experiment with different formal ideas in sculpture.
The display at The Hepworth Wakefield features two works by Moore from the Wakefield Collection as well as major loans from The Henry Moore Foundation.
Henry Moore: Reclining Figures
8 October 2013 -- Spring 2014
Free admission
HENRY MOORE SCULPTOR JAZZ
Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 -- 31 August 1986) was 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.
His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore's works are usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. His forms are generally pierced or contain hollow spaces. Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his birthplace, Yorkshire.
Moore was born in Castleford, the son of a coal miner. He became well-known through his carved marble and larger-scale abstract cast bronze sculptures, and was instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom. His ability in later life to fulfill large-scale commissions made him exceptionally wealthy. Yet he lived frugally and most of the money he earned went towards endowing the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts. The aftermath of World War II, The Holocaust, and the age of the atomic bomb instilled in the sculpture of the mid-1940s a sense that art should return to its pre-cultural and pre-rational origins. In the literature of the day, writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre advocated a similar reductive philosophy. At an introductory speech in New York City for an exhibition of one of the finest modernist sculptors, Alberto Giacometti, Sartre spoke of The beginning and the end of history. Moore's sense of England emerging undefeated from siege led to his focus on pieces characterised by endurance and continuity.
Moore's bronze Draped Reclining Woman 1957-58 (Die Liegende) in Stuttgart, typical of his early reclining figures
Moore's signature form is a reclining figure. Moore's exploration of this form, under the influence of the Toltec-Mayan figure he had seen at the Louvre, was to lead him to increasing abstraction as he turned his thoughts towards experimentation with the elements of design. Moore's earlier reclining figures deal principally with mass, while his later ones contrast the solid elements of the sculpture with the space, not only round them but generally through them as he pierced the forms with openings.
Earlier figures are pierced in a conventional manner, in which bent limbs separate from and rejoin the body. The later, more abstract figures are often penetrated by spaces directly through the body, by which means Moore explores and alternates concave and convex shapes. These more extreme piercings developed in parallel with Barbara Hepworth's sculptures. Hepworth first pierced a torso after misreading a review of one of Henry Moore's early shows. The plaster Reclining Figure: Festival (1951) in the Tate, is characteristic of Moore's later sculptures: an abstract female figure intercut with voids. As with much of the post-War work, there are several bronze casts of this sculpture. When Moore's niece asked why his sculptures had such simple titles, he replied All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know. Today, the Henry Moore Foundation manages the artist's former home at Perry Green in Hertfordshire as a visitor destination, with 70 acres of sculpture grounds as well as his restored house and studios. It also runs the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds which organises exhibitions and research activities in international sculpture. Popular interest in Moore's work was perceived by some to have declined for a while in the UK but has been revived in recent times by exhibitions including Henry Moore at Tate Britain in 2010 and Moore at Kew and Hatfield in 2007 and 2011 respectively. The Foundation he endowed continues to play an essential role in promoting contemporary art in the United Kingdom and abroad through its grants and exhibitions programme
Sculpture in Painting preview at Henry Moore Institute (campaign by Wonder Associates)
Marketing campaign for Henry Moore Institute by Wonder Associates. Use of large graphics on the gallery facade to push the core marketing messages, grabbing the attention of people passing by on The Headrow in Leeds. Video recorded on Light Night in Leeds (9th October).